CodeQL PowerShell Support

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
powershell
Domain
security

Research direction

No files, tests, or entry points are named in the issue. Start by locating CodeQL guidance for writing new language bindings and its integration process; done would be a documented implementation path or a completed PowerShell language-support contribution.

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Description

CodeQL does not currently support PowerShell. Given that PowerShell is quite a potent language that has been used to great effect by red team and blue team alike, this lack of functionality hurts both CodeQL and PowerShell.

I am deeply familiar with the PowerShell AST and would likely be able to make CodeQL PowerShell language support work, if the team can help provide the right guidance on integration.

Please provide more information about how one can write new CodeQL bindings, so that I might turn this issue into a more useful pull request.

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