Remediate OWASP A04:2025 Cryptographic failures
Recipe ID
org.openrewrite.java.security.Owasp2025A04Artifactorg.openrewrite.recipe:rewrite-java-securityOWASP A04:2025 describes failures related to cryptography (or lack thereof), which often lead to exposure of sensitive data. Previously A02:2021.
Composite recipesecurityCWE-326CWE-327CWE-338CWE-329CWE-759CWE-916CWE-780CWE-330CWE-760Proprietary
Add to your build
Get a download tokenThis recipe is Moderne licensed, so the token must belong to a Moderne customer. It replaces YOUR_DOWNLOAD_TOKEN below.
~/.gradle/gradle.properties
codeGenomeUsername=you@example.com
codeGenomeToken=YOUR_DOWNLOAD_TOKEN
build.gradle.kts
plugins {
id("org.openrewrite.rewrite") version("latest.release")
}
rewrite {
activeRecipe("org.openrewrite.java.security.Owasp2025A04")
}
repositories {
mavenCentral()
maven {
url = uri("https://artifacts.codegenomeproject.org/maven")
credentials {
username = providers.gradleProperty("codeGenomeUsername").get()
password = providers.gradleProperty("codeGenomeToken").get()
}
}
}
dependencies {
rewrite("org.openrewrite.recipe:rewrite-java-security:3.41.0")
}
Then run
./gradlew rewriteRunUsage
This recipe has no required configuration options. You’ll need the Moderne CLI configured before running the command below.
mod run . --recipe org.openrewrite.java.security.Owasp2025A04If the recipe isn’t available locally, install it with:
mod config recipes jar install org.openrewrite.recipe:rewrite-java-security:RELEASEDefinition
This recipe runs the following recipes in order.
- Remediate OWASP A02:2021 Cryptographic failures
org.openrewrite.java.security.OwaspA02 - Find weak cryptographic algorithms
org.openrewrite.java.security.search.FindWeakCryptoAlgorithm - Find insecure cipher modes and padding schemes
org.openrewrite.java.security.search.FindInsecureCipherMode - Find weak password hashing
org.openrewrite.java.security.search.FindWeakPasswordHashing - Find RSA encryption without OAEP padding
org.openrewrite.java.security.search.FindRsaWithoutOaep - Find inadequate cryptographic key sizes
org.openrewrite.java.security.search.FindInadequateKeySize - Upgrade inadequate cryptographic key sizes
org.openrewrite.java.security.UpgradeInadequateKeySize - Find hardcoded initialization vectors
org.openrewrite.java.security.search.FindHardcodedIv - Find predictable cryptographic salts
org.openrewrite.java.security.search.FindPredictableSalt - Secure random
org.openrewrite.java.security.SecureRandom - Fix CWE-338 with
SecureRandomorg.openrewrite.java.security.FixCwe338 - Find secrets
org.openrewrite.java.security.secrets.FindSecrets
Data tables
Structured output this recipe can produce.
- Method callsThe text of matching method invocations.
org.openrewrite.java.table.MethodCalls - Source files that had resultsSource files that were modified by the recipe run.
org.openrewrite.table.SourcesFileResults - Source files that had search resultsSearch results that were found during the recipe run.
org.openrewrite.table.SearchResults - Source files that errored on a recipeThe details of all errors produced by a recipe run.
org.openrewrite.table.SourcesFileErrors - Recipe performanceStatistics used in analyzing the performance of recipes.
org.openrewrite.table.RecipeRunStats