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Extuno vs code-vulnerability (SCA) tools
Code-vulnerability tools find known vulnerabilities (CVEs) in your dependencies and your own code. Extuno targets malicious and poisoned supply-chain software across extensions and packages. Run both. A poisoned update is not in the CVE database yet.
What does an SCA or code-vulnerability tool do?
Software composition analysis (SCA) tools scan your dependencies against a vulnerability database to flag known CVEs with fix advice, and many pair this with static application security testing (SAST) of your own source, plus container and infrastructure-as-code scanning. They integrate with IDEs, repositories, and CI, and usually offer a free tier. Their core strength is known vulnerabilities.
Extuno looks for the code an attacker added
SCA tools and Extuno solve different problems. SCA excels at known vulnerabilities in your dependencies and at static analysis of your first-party code. Extuno targets malicious and supply-chain-compromised software: poisoned updates, malicious install behavior, leaked secrets, and the code an attacker added - across browser and IDE extensions and npm, PyPI, and WordPress packages - using static rules, a dynamic sandbox, and version diffing.
Do you need both?
Use an SCA tool to manage known vulnerabilities and to scan your own code. Add Extuno to catch malicious or poisoned third-party extensions and packages that a known-CVE scanner is not designed to find, with dynamic and version-diff evidence. Run both. A CVE feed only lists what someone has already reported.