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📝 Emulating Semgrep SAST Pro Taint Mode with Join Mode

Semgrep’s Join Mode[1] is a seldom discussed yet interesting experimental feature of the Semgrep OSS SAST engine which can be used to achieve rudimentary taint interprocedural and interfile analyses. In this snippet I document how to combine one search mode and two join mode rules in order to identify intrafile, intraprocedural, interfile and interprocedural tainted sinks.

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