Fix Duplicate Findings in Github SAST Scan by Improving Hash Code #13683
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Description
This is an update to the fields used to generate the hash code for Github SAST Scan findings. As explained in this issue, currently the
linefield is used in the hash code. Since these alerts in change lines in GitHub often, it creates duplicate findings for the same alert when re-uploading a scan.To fix this, I propose replacing the
linefield with theurlfield in the hash code. The format of theurlfield is:https://github.com/OWASP/test-repository/security/code-scanning/35This includes the organization, the repository, as well as the alert id. Because the alert id is only unique at the repository level, including only the alert id would not be enough; The organization and repository name is necessary as well. The
urlfield conveniently contains all three. Theurlfield is already populated by the parser, which pulls it from thehtml_urlfield in the GitHub alert. It can be expected that this field will always exist.