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Bearer

Scan your source code against top security and privacy risks.

Bearer is a static application security testing (SAST) tool designed to scan your source code and analyze data flows to identify, filter, and prioritize security and privacy risks.

Bearer offers a free, open solution, Bearer CLI, and a commercial solution, Bearer Pro, available through Cycode.

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Language Support

Bearer CLI (Open Source): Go • Java • JavaScript • TypeScript • PHP • Python • Ruby

Bearer Pro by Cycode: All Bearer CLI languages plus:

  • Advanced Cross-file Analysis: Java • Python • C# (alpha)
  • Additional Languages: C# • Kotlin • Elixir • VB.Net

Learn more about language support

Developer friendly static code analysis for security and privacy

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Bearer CLI scans your source code for:

  • Security risks and vulnerabilities using built-in rules covering the OWASP Top 10 and CWE Top 25, such as:

    • A01: Access control (e.g. Path Traversal, Open Redirect, Exposure of Sensitive Information).
    • A02: Cryptographic Failures (e.g. Weak Algorithm, Insecure Communication).
    • A03: Injection (e.g. SQL Injection, Input Validation, XSS, XPath).
    • A04: Design (e.g. Missing Encryption of Sensitive Data, Persistent Cookies Containing Sensitive Information).
    • A05: Security Misconfiguration (e.g. Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information in a Cookie or JWT).
    • A07: Identification and Authentication Failures (e.g. Use of Hard-coded Password, Improper Certificate Validation).
    • A08: Data Integrity Failures (e.g. Deserialization of Untrusted Data).
    • A09: Security Logging and Monitoring Failures (e.g. Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File).
    • A10: Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF).

    Note: all the rules and their code patterns are accessible through the documentation.

  • Privacy risks with the ability to detect sensitive data flow such as the use of PII, PHI in your app, and components processing sensitive data (e.g. databases like pgSQL, third-party APIs such as OpenAI, Sentry, etc.). This helps generate a privacy report relevant for:

    • Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA).
    • Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA).
    • Records of Processing Activities (RoPA) input for GDPR compliance reporting.

🚀 Getting started

Discover your most critical security risks and vulnerabilities in only a few minutes. In this guide, you will install Bearer CLI, run a security scan on a local project, and view the results. Let's get started!

Install Bearer CLI

The quickest way to install Bearer CLI is with the install script. It will auto-select the best build for your architecture. Defaults installation to ./bin and to the latest release version:

curl -sfL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Bearer/bearer/main/contrib/install.sh | sh

Other install options

Homebrew

Using Bearer CLI's official Homebrew tap:

brew install bearer/tap/bearer

Update an existing installation with the following:

brew update && brew upgrade bearer/tap/bearer
Debian/Ubuntu
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install ca-certificates -y && sudo update-ca-certificates
sudo apt-get install apt-transport-https
echo -e "Types: deb\nURIs: https://apt.fury.io/bearer/\nSuites: /\nTrusted: yes" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/fury.sources
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install bearer

Update an existing installation with the following:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install bearer
RHEL/CentOS

Add repository setting:

$ sudo vim /etc/yum.repos.d/fury.repo
[fury]
name=Gemfury Private Repo
baseurl=https://yum.fury.io/bearer/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0

Then install with yum:

  sudo yum -y update
  sudo yum -y install bearer

Update an existing installation with the following:

sudo yum -y update bearer
Docker

Bearer CLI is also available as a Docker image on Docker Hub and ghcr.io.

With docker installed, you can run the following command with the appropriate paths in place of the examples.

docker run --rm -v /path/to/repo:/tmp/scan bearer/bearer:latest-amd64 scan /tmp/scan

Additionally, you can use docker compose. Add the following to your docker-compose.yml file and replace the volumes with the appropriate paths for your project:

version: "3"
services:
  bearer:
    platform: linux/amd64
    image: bearer/bearer:latest-amd64
    volumes:
      - /path/to/repo:/tmp/scan

Then, run the docker compose run command to run Bearer CLI with any specified flags:

docker compose run bearer scan /tmp/scan --debug

The Docker configurations above will always use the latest release.

Binary

Download the archive file for your operating system/architecture from here.

Unpack the archive, and put the binary somewhere in your $PATH (on UNIX-y systems, /usr/local/bin or the like). Make sure it has permission to execute.

To update Bearer CLI when using the binary, download the latest release and overwrite your existing installation location.


Scan your project

The easiest way to try out Bearer CLI is with the OWASP Juice Shop example project. It simulates a realistic JavaScript application with common security flaws. Clone or download it to a convenient location to get started.

git clone https://github.com/juice-shop/juice-shop.git

Now, run the scan command with bearer scan on the project directory:

bearer scan juice-shop

A progress bar will display the status of the scan.

Once the scan is complete, Bearer CLI will output, by default, a security report with details of any rule findings, as well as where in the codebase the infractions happened and why.

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