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Checkmarx SAST vs Flawfinder

Checkmarx SAST

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Flawfinder

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FigureCheckmarx SASTFlawfinder
Price from—Free
Free plan—Yes
Free trial——
Open source——
WebYes—
WindowsYesYes
macOS—Yes
LinuxYesYes
Self-hosted—Yes
Plans published01
Spec score · Static Application Security Testing Sast6.1 (#15)8.1 (#6)
Spec score · Static Application Security Testing Software6.1 (#21)8.1 (#8)

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Checkmarx SAST

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Checkmarx SAST

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Flawfinder

Flawfinder is a free tool for finding possible security weaknesses in C and C++ source code. It compares source text with a built-in database of functions associated with security problems, generally disregarding comments and strings except for Flawfinder directives. Findings are ordered by risk, which depends on the function and its parameter values; the tool may reduce some false positives when it identifies a construct as not risky. Reports can be generated as text, HTML, CSV, or SARIF. The --patch option narrows findings to changed lines in a unified diff, with a one-line margin. Installation is documented through pip, source downloads, and distribution packages, and the tool requires Python 2.7 or Python 3. The project says it works on Unix-like systems, including GNU/Linux, and on Windows with Cygwin; direct Windows use has also been reported to work. Flawfinder is released under GPL-2.0+. It does not perform control-flow or data-flow analysis, so its output is an aid to review rather than a substitute for security knowledge or human judgment.

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