Bearer vs gosec

Bearer CLI is a free static application security testing tool for Linux and macOS. It scans source code and analyzes data flows to identify security and privacy risks while analyzing code patterns instead of viewing actual data values. The tool supports more than 120 sensitive data types, including personal data, PII, and PHI. Privacy reports can show sensitive data, related data subjects, and internal or third-party components that process it, with information useful for GDPR records of processing activities. Security features include SAST rules and a separate hard-coded-secrets scanner. Bearer documents pull-request and CI/CD use with GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, and CircleCI, plus custom security rules. Listed stacks include Go, Python, PHP, JavaScript, TypeScript, Ruby, and Java. Installation options include scripts, Homebrew, Linux package managers, Docker, and binaries. macOS 12 or later and Git 2.34 or later are required.

gosec is a free Go source-code security checker that analyzes abstract syntax trees and static single assignment representations. It applies pattern rules, SSA analyzers, and taint analysis to detect issues including injection, path traversal, SSRF, unsafe deserialization, cryptography and TLS problems, blocklisted imports, and Go-specific risks. Findings map to Common Weakness Enumeration entries. Users can select or exclude rules, define path-based exclusions, and change settings such as audit mode. Reports are available as text, JSON, YAML, CSV, JUnit XML, HTML, SonarQube, golint, and SARIF. The project documents GitHub Actions and SARIF uploads to GitHub code scanning; its goanalysis package supports tools such as Bazel nogo. Local installation requires Go 1.25 or newer, with dependencies loaded through Go modules. An optional AI feature suggests fixes through Atlas Cloud, Gemini, Claude, OpenAI, or custom OpenAI-compatible APIs. Automated detection can produce false positives, which annotations can suppress. It is licensed under Apache License 2.0.