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Install burp-suite with Homebrew Cask

Web security testing toolkit. Version 2026.10.1 via Homebrew Cask; verified from local package data.

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brew install --cask burp-suite

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overview

Package summary

Web security testing toolkit

Commands and aliases

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history

Project history and usage

Burp Suite is PortSwigger's integrated toolkit for assessing web applications. The Community Edition centers on intercepting, inspecting, modifying, and replaying HTTP traffic during manual security testing.

Project history

Dafydd Stuttard wrote the first Burp implementation during PortSwigger's 2003–2006 early-history period. Burp Suite 1.0 combined Proxy, Sock, Spider, and Repeater.

The suite subsequently accumulated tools such as Intruder, Sequencer, Decoder, and Comparer. PortSwigger's 2007 v1.1 announcement records the transition of a major beta into a general release.

Later releases introduced disk-backed projects and JSON configuration import/export while retaining temporary-project and global user-setting workflows.

Adoption history

PortSwigger maintains Community and Professional desktop editions. The free Community Edition provides the core manual-testing workflow, while the Professional edition extends it with automated and advanced tooling.

Burp's role expanded alongside PortSwigger's training and publishing work, including The Web Application Hacker's Handbook, helping establish a shared tool vocabulary among web-security practitioners.

How it is used

Users typically configure a browser or the bundled browser to send traffic through Burp Proxy, inspect requests in HTTP history, alter intercepted messages, and replay selected requests with Repeater.

Settings may be global to the user or scoped to a project. Burp can export and import JSON configuration files, but the official documentation leaves their save location to the user rather than defining a fixed configuration path.

Why package nerds care

Burp Suite is a canonical package in security-oriented workstation setups: installing the cask provides a repeatable way to obtain the desktop interception proxy without manually managing the vendor download.

Package maintainers care about its Java-based, cross-platform lineage, separate Community and Professional editions, embedded browser, extension ecosystem, and persistent project-versus-user settings model.

Timeline

  • 2003–2006: Dafydd Stuttard writes the first Burp implementation and Burp Suite 1.0 launches.
  • 2007: Burp Suite 1.1 is released after a public beta.
  • 2016: PortSwigger introduces the modern Burp project-file workflow.

Related projects

  • PortSwigger Web Security Academy provides official learning material that commonly accompanies Burp usage.
  • Burp Extender and the BApp Store provide the suite's extension ecosystem.
  • Burp Suite Professional and Burp Suite DAST are related commercial PortSwigger products.

security posture

No protected-tool coverage found yet

No matching local secret-handling manifest was found for burp-suite. Package metadata is still published here so future coverage has a stable package URL.

Install behavior

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  • No Homebrew bottle metadata was recorded.

Recommended review

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

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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 generated2026-11-04
manager version2026.10.1
manager updated
local dataok
upstreamnot checked
latest detectednot detected

https://portswigger.net/burp/

  • infoNo package-manager update timestamp was available.low confidence
  • infoRelease/tag comparison is only available for GitHub repositories.https://portswigger.net/burp/none confidence

install metadata

Package metadata

Package keycask:burp-suite
Version2026.10.1
Package managerHomebrew Cask
Package manager pagehttps://formulae.brew.sh/cask/burp-suite
Homepagehttps://portswigger.net/burp/
Upstream docshttps://portswigger.net/burp/
Source archivehttps://portswigger-cdn.net/burp/releases/download?product=desktop&version=2026.10.1&type=MacOsArm64
SHA-25677a343a0e8ac80784382f33c54ce8c0516618ad7d92a97eb6e014b57d8f2f07d
Bottlenot recorded
Homebrew post-installnot defined
Servicenone declared

registry facts

Source database details

Source DatabaseHomebrew cask API
Taphomebrew/cask
Full Tokenburp-suite
Names
  • Burp Suite Community Edition
Old Tokens
  • burp-suite-professional
Conflicts With
Cask
burp-suite@early-adopter
Artifacts
App
1
Target
1
Uninstall
1
Zap
1
Deprecatedno
Disabledno

package graph

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Same workflow

  • burp-suite@early-adopterSecurity-sensitive metadata or terminology overlaps. Shared terms: burp, security, suite, testing, toolkit.
  • burpLocal package facts share a topical domain. Shared terms: burp.
  • jwt-hackSecurity-sensitive metadata or terminology overlaps. Shared terms: security, testing, toolkit, web.

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