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Price fromFreeFree
Free planYesYes
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Open source—Yes
WebYes—
macOS—Yes
Linux—Yes
APIYesYes
Self-hosted—Yes
Plans published11
Spec score · Static Analysis Tools7.8 (#16)8.6 (#6)
PurposeCoverity Scan provides static analysis results for registered open source projects.gosec inspects Go source code for security problems by scanning its AST and SSA code representation.

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gosec

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.

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