Best Vulnerability Scanners for Visual Studio Code

ZeroPath (YC S24) is an AI-native application security platform that delivers comprehensive code protection beyond traditional SAST. Founded by security engineers from Tesla and Google, ZeroPath combines large language models with advanced program analysis to find and automatically fix vulnerabilities. ZeroPath provides complete security coverage: 1. AI-powered SAST for business logic flaws & broken authentication 2. SCA with reachability analysis 3. Secrets detection and validation 4. Infrastructure as Code 5. Automated patch generation. any more... ZeroPath delivers 2x more real vulnerabilities with 75% fewer false positives. Our research team has been successful in finding vulns like critical account takeover in better-auth (CVE-2025-61928, 300k+ weekly downloads), identifying 170+ verified bugs in curl, and discovering 0-days in production systems at Netflix, Hulu, and Salesforce. Trusted by 750+ companies and performing 200k+ code scans monthly.

Snyk is the leader in developer security. We empower the world’s developers to build secure applications and equip security teams to meet the demands of the digital world. Our developer-first approach ensures organizations can secure all of the critical components of their applications from code to cloud, leading to increased developer productivity, revenue growth, customer satisfaction, cost savings and an overall improved security posture. Snyk’s Developer Security Platform automatically integrates with a developer’s workflow and is purpose-built for security teams to collaborate with their development teams. Snyk is used by 1,200 customers worldwide today, including industry leaders such as Asurion, Google, Intuit, MongoDB, New Relic, Revolut and Salesforce. Snyk is recognized on the Forbes Cloud 100 2021, the 2021 CNBC Disruptor 50 and was named a Visionary in the 2021 Gartner Magic Quadrant for AST.

The YAG-Suite is a French made innovative tool which brings SAST one step beyond. Based on static analysis and machine learning, YAGAAN offers customers more than a source code scanner : it offers a smart suite of tools to support application security audits as well as security and privacy by design DevSecOps processes. Beyond classic vulnerability detection, the YAG-Suite focuses the team attention on the problems that really matter in their business context, it supports developers in their understanding of the vulnerability causes and impacts. Its contextual remediation support them in fixing efficiently the problems while improving their secure coding skills. Additionally, YAG-Suite's unprecedented 'code mining' support security investigations of an unknown application with mapping all relevant code features and security mechanisms and offers querying capabilities to search for 0-days or non automatically detectable risks. PHP, Java and Python are supported. JS, C/C++ coming soon

Trivy is a comprehensive and versatile security scanner. Trivy has scanners that look for security issues, and targets where it can find those issues. Trivy supports the most popular programming languages, operating systems, and platforms. Trivy is available in the most common distribution channels. Trivy is integrated with many popular platforms and applications. Trivy is integrated into many popular tools and applications so that you can easily add security to your workflow. Find vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, secrets, and SBOM in containers, Kubernetes, code repositories, clouds, and more.