# Install gotestwaf with Homebrew, Nix Tool for API and OWASP attack simulation. Version 0.5.8 via Homebrew; verified from local package data. ## Install ```sh sudo av install brew:gotestwaf ``` Additional install commands: ### macOS - Homebrew (100%): ```sh brew install gotestwaf ``` Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata ### Linux - Nix (92%): ```sh nix profile install nixpkgs#gotestwaf ``` Evidence: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/go/gotestwaf/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1 ## Package facts - **Package key:** brew:gotestwaf - **Package manager:** Homebrew - **Package manager page:** - **Version:** 0.5.8 - **Source summary:** Tool for API and OWASP attack simulation - **Homepage:** - **Repository:** - **Upstream docs:** - **License:** MIT - **Source archive:** - **Generated:** 2026-07-08T07:18:31+00:00 ## Executables - gotestwaf (cli) - gotestwaf (alias) ## Build dependencies - go ## Install behavior - Post-install hook: not defined - Bottle: available on arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, arm64_ventura, sonoma, ventura, x86_64_linux ## Freshness - Page generated: 2026-07-08 - Package-manager version: 0.5.8 - Local data: ok - Upstream repository: https://github.com/wallarm/gotestwaf - Upstream latest detected: v0.5.8 (current) - info: No package-manager update timestamp was available. ## 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 Notes narrow executable package without higher-risk signals. - **Geiger risk:** green / low - narrow executable package without higher-risk signals ## 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 - Unix: config.yaml ## 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:** - **Deprecated:** no - **Disabled:** no - **Keg Only:** no - **URL Keys:** head, stable ## Other Package-Manager Records - Nix - gotestwaf: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/go/gotestwaf/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1 ## Related links - [Terminal utility packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/terminal-utilities/) - Matched terminal and command-line workflow metadata. - [Developer build packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/developer-build-tools/) - Matched build, compiler, generator, or developer workflow metadata. - [Language runtime packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/language-runtime-packages/) - Matched language runtime, compiler, or interpreter metadata. - [Networking and protocol packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/networking-protocol-tools/) - Matched network, protocol, or remote-service metadata. - [go](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/go/) - Build dependency declared by Homebrew. - [modsecurity](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/modsecurity/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, owasp, security, waf. - [sqlmap](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/sqlmap/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: application-security, cli, security, testing. - [cycode](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/cycode/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: application-security, cli, security. - [dependency-check](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/dependency-check/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, owasp, security. - [favirecon](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/favirecon/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, go, security. - [garble](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/garble/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, go, security. - [gau](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/gau/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, go, security. - [gobuster](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/gobuster/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, go, security. - [noir](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/noir/) - Security-sensitive metadata or terminology overlaps. Shared terms: api, api-security, attack, cli, security. ## Combined YAML source View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/gotestwaf.yml](https://github.com/automic-vault/db/blob/main/combined/gotestwaf.yml) ## Sources - Nucleus package database - Geiger risk classifier - package-page enrichment - curated configuration and credential file locations - curated package history - package version freshness - av.db category and tag curation - package relationship graph - external package-manager database matches - cross-ecosystem install command graph