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Checkmarx One JetBrains Plugin

Checkmarx continues to spearhead the shift-left approach to AppSec by bringing our powerful AppSec tools into your IDE. This empowers developers to identify vulnerabilities and remediate them as they code. The Checkmarx JetBrains plugin integrates seamlessly into your IDE, enabling you to access the full functionality of your Checkmarx One account (SAST, SCA, IaC Security, API Security, Container Security) directly from your IDE.

You can run new scans, or import results from scans run in your Checkmarx One account. Checkmarx provides detailed info about each vulnerability, including remediation recommendations and examples of effective remediation. The plugin enables you to navigate from a vulnerability to the relevant source code, so that you can easily zero-in on the problematic code and start working on remediation.

This plugin provides easy integration with JetBrains and is compatible with all JetBrains IDE products (e.g., IntelliJ IDEA, PyCharm, WebStorm etc.).

Note

All examples in this documentation will be shown for IntelliJ IDEA (for Java and JVM languages).

Key Features

  • Access the full power of Checkmarx One (SAST, SCA, IaC Security, API Security and Container Security) directly from your IDE.

  • Run a new scan from your IDE even before committing the code, or import scan results from your Checkmarx One account.

  • Rescan an existing branch from your IDE or create a new branch in Checkmarx One for the local branch in your workspace.

  • Provides actionable results including remediation recommendations. Navigate from results panel directly to the highlighted vulnerable code in the editor and get right down to work on the remediation.

  • Group and filter results.

  • Triage results (by adjusting the severity and state and adding comments) directly from the JetBrains console (currently supported for SAST and IaC Security).

  • Apply Auto Remediation to automatically remediate open source vulnerabilities, by updating to a non-vulnerable package version.

  • Links to Codebashing lessons.

  • AI Secure Coding Assistant (ASCA) - A lightweight scan engine that runs in the background while you work, enabling developers to identify and remediate secure coding best practice violations as they code.

Prerequisites

  • You are running IntelliJ version 2022.2+ or another JetBrains IDE that is based on a supported version of IntelliJ.

    Notice

    Early versions of our plugin (2.0.16 and below) support JetBrains version 2021.1+ as well.

  • You have an API key for your Checkmarx One account. To create an API key, see Generating an API Key.

    Note

    The following are the minimum required roles for accessing the full functionality of the IDE plugins:

    • CxOne composite role ast-scanner

    • IAM role default-roles

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