VisualCodeGrepper on macOS

VisualCodeGrepper is a SAST (Static Application Security Testing) tool written in Visual Basic. However, it supports the scanning and reporting on the following languages!

• C/C++
• Java
• C#
• VB
• PL/SQL

Since its free, I decided to run against an application I've been working on for the past few months. I've been periodically going though and fixing vulnerabilities I find using FindSecBug and since I wasn't finding anything new, I thought I'd give another tool a try.

install brew

Brew is an awesome package manger for macOS. If you've used apt-get or yum before, this is that but for macOS.

install wine

Wine is another awesome tool which lets you emulate a windows subsystem withought making you deal with windows.

install VisualCodeGrepper

On the command prompt run wine PATH_TO_VCG_Installer

Get to the install dir

Help if you need it

Run the Scan

visualcodegrepper.exe -c -export Z:\Users\joubin\Desktop\airbnb.xml -l JAVA -t Z:\Users\joubin\Downloads\scanthis\lottie\src

Profit

Then you get a result of something that looks like:

February 08 2017

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