# gotestwaf mit Homebrew, Nix installieren

Prüfe Installationswege, Executables, Metadaten und Sicherheitshinweise für gotestwaf in AI-Agent-Workflows.

## Installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:gotestwaf
```

Weitere Installationsbefehle:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install gotestwaf
```

  Evidenz: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#gotestwaf
```

  Evidenz: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/go/gotestwaf/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

## Paketfakten

- **Paketschlüssel:** brew:gotestwaf
- **Paketmanager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 0.5.8
- **Quellzusammenfassung:** Tool for API and OWASP attack simulation
- **Homepage:** <https://lab.wallarm.com/test-your-waf-before-hackers/>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/wallarm/gotestwaf>
- **Zuletzt aktualisiert:** 2026-07-27T16:47:25+02:00
- **Generiert:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- gotestwaf (Alias)

## Installationsverhalten

- Bottle: nicht verfügbar

## Version und Aktualität

- Seite generiert: 2026-08-03
- Manager-Version: 0.5.8
## Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

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.

### Projektgeschichte

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.

### Adoptionsgeschichte

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.

### Wie es verwendet wird

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.

### Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

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.

### Zeitleiste

- 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.

### Quellen

- <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/gotestwaf>
- <https://github.com/wallarm/gotestwaf>
- <https://github.com/wallarm/gotestwaf#readme>
- <https://github.com/wallarm/gotestwaf/releases>
- <https://github.com/wallarm/gotestwaf/tree/master/docs>


## Sicherheitshinweise

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Geiger-Risiko:** grün / niedrig
- 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
## Andere Paketmanager-Einträge

- 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


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/gotestwaf.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/gotestwaf.yml)


## Quellen

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated configuration and credential file locations
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph