install

Additional install commands

macOS

Homebrewverified · 100%

brew install gotestwaf

local Homebrew formula metadata

Linux

Nixverified · 92%

nix profile install nixpkgs#gotestwaf

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

overview

Package summary

Tool for API and OWASP attack simulation

Project links

Commands and aliases

gotestwaf

history

Project history and usage

GoTestWAF is Wallarm's Go-based command-line tool for simulating API and OWASP-style attacks against web application firewalls, API gateways, IPS products, and related application-security controls.

Project history

The repository was created in January 2020. The README describes a scanner that generates malicious requests by combining payloads, encoders, and request placeholders, then records how the evaluated security solution handled those requests.

Adoption history

The project is packaged as a Docker image and a Homebrew formula, which matches its evaluation-tool use case: users can run it near the target application or security appliance without embedding it into application code.

How it is used

Users point GoTestWAF at an evaluated URL and run built-in test sets such as OWASP Top 10 and OWASP API, or supply custom YAML test cases. Reports can be generated locally, and releases in 2024 and 2025 emphasize report-format and validation work.

Why package nerds care

For package catalogs, GoTestWAF is a niche but useful security-testing CLI: it packages repeatable malicious-request generation as a portable Go binary and container, rather than as a SaaS-only scanner.

Timeline

2020: Repository created.
2022: README badge identifies GoTestWAF with Black Hat Arsenal USA 2022.
2024: v0.4.19 and v0.5.x releases published through GitHub releases.
2025: v0.5.8 release fixed HTML report validation.

Related projects

OWASP test categories and API-security scenarios shape the bundled test cases.
Wallarm publishes the project and Docker image for WAF and API-security evaluation workflows.

Sources

security posture

Risk level: green

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

Risk classifier

green risk · low confidence · appliance

Why

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals

Signals

metadata:no-higher-risk-signals

Install behavior

No Homebrew post-install hook is recorded in formula metadata.
Homebrew bottle metadata is available for 8 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.

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: config.yaml

executables

Installed executables

Command	Kind	Exposure	Note
`gotestwaf`	cli	global 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 version0.5.8

manager updated

local dataok

upstreamcurrent

latest detectedv0.5.8

https://github.com/wallarm/gotestwaf

infoNo package-manager update timestamp was available.low confidence

install metadata

Package metadata

Package key	brew:gotestwaf
Version	0.5.8
Package manager	Homebrew
Package manager page	https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/gotestwaf
Homepage	https://lab.wallarm.com/test-your-waf-before-hackers/
Repository	https://github.com/wallarm/gotestwaf
Upstream docs	https://github.com/wallarm/gotestwaf#readme
License	MIT
Source archive	https://github.com/wallarm/gotestwaf/archive/refs/tags/v0.5.8.tar.gz
Build dependencies	go
Bottle	available (on arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, arm64_ventura, sonoma, ventura, x86_64_linux)
Homebrew post-install	not defined
Service	none declared

registry facts

Source database details

Source Database	Homebrew formula API
Tap	homebrew/core
Full Name	gotestwaf
Version Scheme	0
Revision	0
Head Version	HEAD
Bottle Stable Root URL	https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core
Deprecated	no
Disabled	no
Keg Only	no
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%

gotestwaf

nix profile install nixpkgs#gotestwaf

normalized package name match
Matched by: Gotestwaf

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package graph

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

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.

Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub.

combined/gotestwaf.yml

Used sources

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

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