REDEFINING SECURITY COVERAGE FOR PYTHON WITH FRAMEWORK NATIVE ANALYSIS

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SAST tools often struggle to detect vulnerabilities and follow control flow across complex frameworks or libraries. To address this, Semgrep Pro has added framework-aware analysis, global object tracking, and prebuilt rules for Django, Flask, FastAPI, and other major libraries. Semgrep's testing resulted in an 84% true positive rate on ~1,000 findings across 192 repositories containing ~20M lines of code.