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Installer tfsec avec Homebrew, chocolatey, MacPorts, Nix, scoop

Consultez les chemins d'installation, exécutables, métadonnées et notes de sécurité de tfsec pour les workflows d'agents IA.

installation

Commandes d'installation supplémentaires

macOS

Homebrewvérifié · 100%
brew install tfsec

local Homebrew formula metadata

MacPortsvérifié · 94%
sudo port install tfsec

MacPorts ports tree · security/tfsec/Portfile · Source: api.github.com

Linux

Nixvérifié · 92%
nix profile install nixpkgs#tfsec

nixpkgs package indexes · pkgs/by-name/tf/tfsec/package.nix · Source: api.github.com

Windows

Chocolateyvérifié · 92%
choco install tfsec

Chocolatey community package catalog · tfsec · Source: community.chocolatey.org

Scoopvérifié · 92%
scoop install main/tfsec

Scoop official bucket manifest trees · bucket/tfsec.json · Source: api.github.com

aperçu

Résumé du paquet

Static analysis security scanner for your terraform code

historique

Historique du projet et usages

tfsec is an Aqua Security command-line scanner for finding security misconfigurations in Terraform code. Its official README describes it as a static-analysis tool for Terraform and lists broad cloud-provider coverage, hundreds of built-in rules, multiple report formats, CI usage, Docker images, editor integrations, GitHub Actions, and Azure DevOps integration.

In 2023 Aqua announced that tfsec was joining the Trivy family. The project remained available, but Aqua directed users toward Trivy for ongoing engineering attention and a broader scanner ecosystem.

Historique du projet

The project grew around Terraform-specific static analysis: scanning local and remote modules, evaluating HCL expressions and Terraform functions, checking relationships between Terraform resources, supporting Terraform CDK, and allowing user-defined Rego policies.

Aqua's tfsec-to-Trivy migration material frames tfsec as one of the foundations of Trivy's infrastructure-as-code and misconfiguration scanning support. The migration guide maps common tfsec commands to Trivy equivalents, such as replacing `tfsec <dir>` with `trivy config <dir>`.

Historique d'adoption

The official README documents package-manager and binary distribution through Homebrew/Linuxbrew, Chocolatey, Scoop, Go install, release binaries, and Docker images. The input metadata also records Homebrew, Chocolatey, MacPorts, Nix, and Scoop packaging.

The README cites Thoughtworks Tech Radar's Adopt rating and describes tfsec as a default static-analysis tool for Terraform in Thoughtworks projects. Aqua's 2023 announcement shows the adoption inflection point: the Terraform scanning engine moved into the wider Trivy product and community path while tfsec stayed available.

Modes d'utilisation

The usual package-nerd workflow was `brew install tfsec` followed by `tfsec .` in a Terraform repository. The tool exits non-zero when it finds problems, which made it natural for CI gates.

tfsec supported machine-readable output such as JSON, SARIF, CSV, Checkstyle, and JUnit, plus GitHub Security Alerts via SARIF upload. It also supported inline ignore comments such as `tfsec:ignore:<rule>`, expiry dates for ignores, tfvars input, custom checks under `.tfsec`, and a root `.tfsec/config.json` or `.tfsec/config.yml` config file.

Pourquoi les passionnés de paquets s'y intéressent

For Homebrew and other package-manager users, tfsec was a compact example of an IaC security tool that could be installed as a single CLI and dropped into editors, hooks, and CI without a service dependency.

Its later migration into Trivy is significant for package catalogs because it marks a common lifecycle for niche security CLIs: first a focused Terraform scanner, then an engine folded into a broader multi-surface scanner while the old binary remains packaged for existing automation.

Chronologie

  • 2023-02-18: Aqua announced that tfsec was joining the Trivy family and encouraged the community to transition to Trivy.
  • 2024-2025: The GitHub releases page shows continuing tfsec maintenance releases in the v1.28 series, including v1.28.14 on 2025-05-02.
  • 2026: The input metadata still records tfsec in multiple package managers, including Homebrew, Chocolatey, MacPorts, Nix, and Scoop.

Related projects

  • Trivy is the successor path recommended by Aqua for Terraform and broader misconfiguration scanning.
  • The README links related tfsec integrations including tfsec-pr-commenter-action, tfsec-sarif-action, the official Azure DevOps task, and editor plugins for JetBrains, VS Code, and Vim.

posture de sécurité

Niveau de risque : vert

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

Classificateur de risque

risque vert · confiance faible · appliance

Pourquoi

  • narrow executable package without higher-risk signals

Signaux

  • metadata:no-higher-risk-signals

Comportement d'installation

  • Aucun hook post-install Homebrew n’est enregistré dans les métadonnées de formule.
  • Les métadonnées de bottle Homebrew sont disponibles pour 8 plateformes.
  • Les métadonnées de compilation listent 1 dépendances de compilation.

Revue recommandée

Avant une utilisation sans surveillance par un agent, vérifiez si l'outil lit des identifiants en clair, écrit un état distant, publie des artefacts ou lance des plugins.

local files

Configuration and credential file locations

These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval.

Configuration files

Config paths the tool may read or write during local use.

Unix
.tfsec/config.json.tfsec/config.yml

exécutables

Exécutables installés

CommandeTypeExpositionNote
tfseccliexécutable global

fraîcheur

Version et fraîcheur

Ces signaux séparent l'âge de génération de la page, l'activité du gestionnaire de paquets et la comparaison avec les versions amont. Un retard de version n'est signalé que lorsqu'une URL de preuve et des versions comparables sont présentes.

page générée2026-07-25
version du gestionnaire1.28.14
gestionnaire mis à jour
données localesOK
amontà jour
dernière version détectéev1.28.14

https://github.com/aquasecurity/tfsec

  • infoNo package-manager update timestamp was available.confiance faible

métadonnées d'installation

Métadonnées du paquet

Clé du paquetbrew:tfsec
Version1.28.14
Gestionnaire de paquetsHomebrew
Page du gestionnaire de paquetshttps://formulae.brew.sh/formula/tfsec
Page d'accueilhttps://aquasecurity.github.io/tfsec/latest/
Dépôthttps://github.com/aquasecurity/tfsec
Docs amonthttps://aquasecurity.github.io/tfsec/latest
LicenceMIT
Archive sourcehttps://github.com/aquasecurity/tfsec/archive/refs/tags/v1.28.14.tar.gz
Dépendances de compilationgo
Bouteilledisponible (sur arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, arm64_ventura, sonoma, ventura, x86_64_linux)
post-install Homebrewnon défini
Serviceaucun déclaré

faits du registre

Détails de la base source

Source DatabaseHomebrew formula API
Taphomebrew/core
Full Nametfsec
Version Scheme0
Revision0
Head VersionHEAD
Bottle Stable Root URLhttps://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core
Deprecatedno
Disabledno
Keg Onlyno
URL Keys
  • head
  • stable

correspondances dans les bases sources

Autres enregistrements de gestionnaires de paquets

Les correspondances proviennent d’index externes de gestionnaires de paquets et restent séparées des liens de paquets Automic Vault locaux.

Nix95%

tfsec

nix profile install nixpkgs#tfsec
  • normalized package name match
  • Correspondance par : Tfsec
nixpkgs package indexes · api.github.com · nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/tf/tfsec/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
MacPorts95%

tfsec

sudo port install tfsec
  • normalized package name match
  • Correspondance par : Tfsec
MacPorts ports tree · api.github.com · MacPorts ports tree: security/tfsec/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1
Chocolatey95%

tfsec

choco install tfsec
  • normalized package name match
  • Correspondance par : Tfsec
Chocolatey community package catalog · community.chocolatey.org · Chocolatey community package catalog: tfsec from http://community.chocolatey.org/api/v2/Packages?$filter=IsLatestVersion&$select=Id&$top=1000&$skiptoken='11','telegram.install'
Scoop95%

main/tfsec

scoop install main/tfsec
  • normalized package name match
  • Correspondance par : Tfsec
Scoop official bucket manifest trees · api.github.com · Scoop official bucket manifest trees: bucket/tfsec.json from https://api.github.com/repos/ScoopInstaller/Main/git/trees/master?recursive=1

piste source

Généré depuis les données du dépôt

Cette page est servie par av-web depuis l'artéfact SQLite privé des paquets généré par scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py.

Sources utilisées

  • Geiger risk classifier
  • Nucleus package database
  • av.db category and tag curation
  • cross-ecosystem install command graph
  • curated configuration and credential file locations
  • curated package history
  • external package-manager database matches
  • package relationship graph
  • package version freshness
  • package-page enrichment