Why my security scanner refuses to tell you your code is clean

Описание и применение

Скрипт SecHelix выявляет скрытые режимы отказа в сканировании безопасности, предоставляя прозрачные статусы и предотвращая ложные подтверждения чистоты кода.

Задача

Security scanners can return an empty findings list for multiple reasons—crash, expired key, budget exhaustion, or genuine clean code—making it impossible to distinguish a true clean result from a failure.

Результат

SecHelix exposes hidden failure modes in security scanning, providing clear status indicators and preventing silent budget or configuration failures from masquerading as clean results.

Рабочий процесс

• 1. Run SecHelix on the codebase.
• 2. Observe lane states: SUCCEEDED, SKIPPED, BLOCKED, FAILED.
• 3. If a lane is BLOCKED (e.g., budget exhausted), the run is marked INCOMPLETE and no pass is reported.
• 4. Hunters propose findings; verifiers independently refute or accept them without seeing confidence or severity.
• 5. Paired vulnerable/clean fixtures ensure precision is measured.
• 6. Review the detailed report to confirm findings or lack thereof.

Доказательства

An empty findings list looks identical to a clean result.

Источник

BLOCKED authorization no reasoning executor configured; this node analyses code and cannot be answered by the runner alone SUCCEEDED map BLOCKED verify dependency not satisfied: authorization BLOCKED gate dependency not satisfied: verify RESULT INCOMPLETE - unsatisfied mandatory nodes: gate, verify No security claim can be made from this run.

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A budget limit that silently skips verification and then returns PASS has converted a cost control into a correctness bug.

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