Question

At Meridian Payments, a code scanning alert flagging a potential SQL injection appears on a pull request that a developer opened. The organization follows a prevention-first strategy where developers own remediation of issues surfaced during their work, security engineers set policy and provide guidance, and admins configure enforcement. The developer is unsure how to fix the flagged query and the PR is blocked by a branch protection rule requiring the alert to be resolved. Whose responsibility is it to remediate the code change, and what is the appropriate next step?

Accepted Answer

The developer owns remediation; they should fix the vulnerable query (e.g., use parameterized queries), consulting the security team for guidance if needed, then re-run the analysis.

Answer

The security engineer owns remediation; the developer should dismiss the alert as 'won't fix' and let the security team open a separate PR to patch it later.

Answer

The repository admin owns remediation; they should temporarily disable the branch protection rule so the PR can merge and address the alert post-merge.

Answer

No one needs to remediate; because it is only a 'potential' finding on an unmerged branch, the developer should mark the alert as a false positive to unblock the PR.