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Install cliam with Homebrew, Nix

Cloud agnostic IAM permissions enumerator. Version 2.2.0 via Homebrew; verified from local package data.

Install commandSecurity notes

install

Additional install commands

macOS

Homebrewverified · 100%
brew install cliam

local Homebrew formula metadata

Linux

Nixverified · 92%
nix profile install nixpkgs#cliam

nixpkgs package indexes · pkgs/by-name/cl/cliam/package.nix · source: api.github.com

overview

Package summary

Cloud agnostic IAM permissions enumerator

Commands and aliases

  • cliam

history

Project history and usage

cliam is a multi-cloud IAM permissions enumeration CLI for checking what AWS, GCP, Azure, and Firebase credentials can do.

Project history

The official README presents cliam as a work-in-progress cloud permissions identifier with provider-specific subcommands and both broad enumeration and service-group modes.

Adoption history

Its Homebrew and Nix packaging puts a security assessment binary into common workstation package managers, useful for operators who want repeatable installs outside a language-specific toolchain.

How it is used

Users run provider subcommands such as `cliam aws`, `cliam gcp`, or `cliam azure`, supplying credentials through provider environment variables, profiles, service-account paths, or command-line flags.

Why package nerds care

The package matters as a compact cloud-security CLI: it maps provider credentials to effective permissions without requiring a full security scanner stack.

Related projects

  • The README relates cliam to cloud provider IAM and credential systems for AWS, GCP, Azure, Firebase, and planned Oracle support.

Sources

  • Official GitHub README: cloud-agnostic IAM permissions enumeration, provider coverage, installation, usage, and credential handling.

security posture

Risk level: orange

infrastructure mutation or orchestration signal.

Risk classifier

orange risk · medium confidence · infrastructure

Why

  • infrastructure mutation or orchestration signal

Signals

  • text:cloud

Install behavior

  • No Homebrew post-install hook is recorded in formula metadata.
  • Homebrew bottle metadata is available for 6 platform targets.
  • Build metadata lists 1 build dependencies.

Recommended review

Before unattended agent use, check whether the tool reads plaintext credentials, writes remote state, publishes artifacts, or shells out to plugins.

executables

Installed executables

CommandKindExposureNote
cliamcliglobal executable

freshness

Version and freshness

These signals separate page generation age, package-manager activity, and upstream release comparison. Version lag is warned only when an evidence URL and comparable versions are present.

page generated2026-07-08
manager version2.2.0
manager updated
local dataok
upstreamcurrent
latest detected2.2.0

https://github.com/securisec/cliam

  • infoNo package-manager update timestamp was available.low confidence

install metadata

Package metadata

Package keybrew:cliam
Version2.2.0
Package managerHomebrew
Package manager pagehttps://formulae.brew.sh/formula/cliam
Homepagehttps://github.com/securisec/cliam
Repositoryhttps://github.com/securisec/cliam
Upstream docshttps://github.com/securisec/cliam#readme
LicenseGPL-3.0-or-later
Source archivehttps://github.com/securisec/cliam/archive/refs/tags/2.2.0.tar.gz
Build dependenciesgo
Bottleavailable (on arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux)
Homebrew post-installnot defined
Servicenone declared

registry facts

Source database details

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

source database matches

Other package-manager records

Matches are pulled from external package-manager indexes and kept separate from local Automic Vault package links.

Nix95%

cliam

nix profile install nixpkgs#cliam
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Cliam
nixpkgs package indexes · api.github.com · nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/cl/cliam/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

package graph

Links come from deterministic package relationships, av.db category and tag curation, ecosystem matches, and package hub membership.

Related tools

  • goBuild dependency declared by Homebrew.

Same workflow

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  • principalmapperShares av.db curated category or tags: aws, cli, cloud-security, iam, security.
  • yatasShares av.db curated category or tags: aws, cli, cloud-security, gcp, security.
  • cloudsplainingShares av.db curated category or tags: aws, cli, cloud-security, iam, security.
  • parliamentShares av.db curated category or tags: aws, cli, cloud-security, iam, security.
  • terraform-iam-policy-validatorShares av.db curated category or tags: aws, cli, cloud-security, iam, security.

source trail

Generated from repository data

This page is generated by av-web from the private package SQLite artifact built by scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py.

Used sources

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