gosec is a static security scanner for Go projects. It examines source code for insecure constructs and common classes of vulnerability without needing to execute the program.
The scanner combines AST-based rules with SSA analysis and data-flow tracking. This lets it identify both straightforward coding mistakes and problems where untrusted data can reach security-sensitive operations.
Rules span general secure coding, injection attacks, filesystem handling, cryptography, TLS, unsafe APIs and Go-specific security problems.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Pattern-based AST rules detect common insecure coding practices.
- SSA analysis covers issues involving type conversions, slice bounds and cryptographic usage.
- Taint analysis tracks untrusted data through applications to detect SQL injection, command injection, path traversal, SSRF, XSS and other vulnerabilities.
- Rules cover general secure coding, injections, file handling, cryptography, TLS and Go-specific security issues.
- Individual rules can be included or excluded, with additional path-specific exclusions.
- Supports inline suppression directives and can track suppression reasons for auditing.
- Produces text, JSON, YAML, CSV, HTML, JUnit XML, SonarQube and SARIF reports.
- Supports Go build tags and project-specific configuration.
- Integrates with GitHub Actions and GitHub code scanning.
- Available as both a command-line application and Go analysis components for integration into other tooling.
Website: github.com/securego/gosec
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Developer: securego
License: Apache License 2.0
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