GitHub Copilot Now Prevents Vulnerabilities Before Code Commits

Short summary

GitHub shipped a new Copilot slash command that scans uncommitted diffs for five OWASP vulnerability classes — injection, XSS, insecure data handling, path traversal, and weak cryptography — before code is committed. Available to all subscribers including Free tier, the feature targets the exact vulnerability categories that Veracode found AI-generated code introduces most frequently (45% of AI code has at least one OWASP vuln). The tool fills a gap between CodeQL's repo-wide CI scanning and Dependabot's dependency checks by operating locally on uncommitted changes.

• •GitHub Copilot now scans uncommitted diffs for 5 OWASP vulnerability classes before commit
• •Available to all subscribers including Free tier, targeting the most common AI-generated code vulnerabilities
• •Fills gap between CodeQL (CI-bound) and Dependabot (dependency-level) by catching issues at edit time

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