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Remediate OWASP A07:2025 Identification and authentication failures

Recipe IDorg.openrewrite.java.security.Owasp2025A07Artifactorg.openrewrite.recipe:rewrite-java-security

OWASP A07:2025 describes failures related to identification and authentication, including weak credential management, missing brute force protections, session fixation, hardcoded credentials, insecure "remember me", and missing multi-factor authentication. Same position as A07:2021 (no prior aggregator existed).

Composite recipeCWE-521CWE-259CWE-347CWE-798CWE-1004CWE-327CWE-613CWE-614CWE-307CWE-539CWE-294CWE-384CWE-287securityCWE-916Proprietary

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.Owasp2025A07")
}

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 rewriteRun

Usage

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.Owasp2025A07

If the recipe isn’t available locally, install it with:

mod config recipes jar install org.openrewrite.recipe:rewrite-java-security:RELEASE

Definition

This recipe runs the following recipes in order.

Find secretsorg.openrewrite.java.security.secrets.FindSecrets
Find hardcoded authentication credentialsorg.openrewrite.java.security.search.FindHardcodedAuthenticationCredentials
Find User.withDefaultPasswordEncoder() usageorg.openrewrite.java.security.search.FindUserWithDefaultPasswordEncoder
Remove explicit configuration of SHA-256 as encoding and matching algorithm for TokenBasedRememberMeServicesorg.openrewrite.java.spring.security6.UseSha256InRememberMe
Find weak Spring Security password encodersorg.openrewrite.java.security.search.FindWeakSpringPasswordEncoder
Find weak message digests used inside custom PasswordEncoder implementationsorg.openrewrite.java.security.search.FindWeakDigestInPasswordEncoder
Find unsigned JWT usageorg.openrewrite.java.security.search.FindUnsignedJwt
Find Spring Security configurations that disable session fixation protectionorg.openrewrite.java.security.search.FindInsecureSessionFixationConfig
Find insecure Spring Security RememberMe configurationorg.openrewrite.java.security.search.FindInsecureRememberMeConfig
Find weak password encoder strengthorg.openrewrite.java.security.search.FindWeakPasswordEncoderStrength
Find long or disabled HTTP session timeoutorg.openrewrite.java.security.search.FindLongSessionTimeout
Insecure cookiesorg.openrewrite.java.security.servlet.CookieSetSecure
Cookies missing HttpOnly flagorg.openrewrite.java.security.servlet.CookieSetHttpOnly

Data tables

Structured output this recipe can produce.

Taint flowRecords taint flows from sources to sinks with their taint types.org.openrewrite.analysis.java.taint.table.TaintFlowTable
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