# 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

```sh
sudo av install brew:tfsec
```

Commandes d'installation supplémentaires:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install tfsec
```

  Preuve: local Homebrew formula metadata

- MacPorts (94%):

```sh
sudo port install tfsec
```

  Preuve: MacPorts ports tree: security/tfsec/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1

### Linux

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#tfsec
```

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

### Windows

- Chocolatey (92%):

```sh
choco install tfsec
```

  Preuve: Chocolatey community package catalog: tfsec from http://community.chocolatey.org/api/v2/Packages?$filter=IsLatestVersion&$select=Id&$top=1000&$skiptoken='11','termius'

- Scoop (92%):

```sh
scoop install main/tfsec
```

  Preuve: Scoop official bucket manifest trees: bucket/tfsec.json from https://api.github.com/repos/ScoopInstaller/Main/git/trees/master?recursive=1

## Faits du paquet

- **Clé du paquet:** brew:tfsec
- **Gestionnaire de paquets:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 1.28.14
- **Résumé source:** Static analysis security scanner for your terraform code
- **Page d'accueil:** <https://aquasecurity.github.io/tfsec/latest/>
- **Dépôt:** <https://github.com/aquasecurity/tfsec>
- **Généré:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## exécutables

- tfsec (alias)

## Comportement d'installation

- Bouteille: non disponible

## Version et fraîcheur

- page générée: 2026-08-03
- version du gestionnaire: 1.28.14
## 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.

### Sources

- <https://aquasecurity.github.io/tfsec/v0.63.1/getting-started/configuration/config/>
- <https://github.com/aquasecurity/tfsec README>
- <https://github.com/aquasecurity/tfsec/blob/master/tfsec-to-trivy-migration-guide.md>
- <https://github.com/aquasecurity/tfsec/discussions/1994>
- source_facts.package-manager


## Notes de sécurité

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Risque Geiger:** vert / faible
- 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: .tfsec/config.json, .tfsec/config.yml
## Autres enregistrements de gestionnaires de paquets

- Nix - tfsec: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/tf/tfsec/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- MacPorts - tfsec: normalized package name match | MacPorts ports tree: security/tfsec/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- Chocolatey - tfsec: normalized package name match | Chocolatey community package catalog: tfsec from http://community.chocolatey.org/api/v2/Packages?$filter=IsLatestVersion&$select=Id&$top=1000&$skiptoken='11','termius'
- Scoop - main/tfsec: normalized package name match | Scoop official bucket manifest trees: bucket/tfsec.json from https://api.github.com/repos/ScoopInstaller/Main/git/trees/master?recursive=1


## Combined YAML source

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


## Sources

- 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