gitleaks
Find secrets with Gitleaks 🔑 (by gitleaks)
semgrep
Lightweight static analysis for many languages. Find bug variants with patterns that look like source code. (by semgrep)
| gitleaks | semgrep | |
|---|---|---|
| 41 | 82 | |
| 19,544 | 11,495 | |
| 2.6% | 2.4% | |
| 9.4 | 9.9 | |
| 5 days ago | 5 days ago | |
| Go | OCaml | |
| MIT License | GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
gitleaks
Posts with mentions or reviews of gitleaks.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-03-20.
- Gitleaks – open-source Secret Scannng
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Fitness Functions - O Check-up contĂnuo de seu Software
Exposição de dados sensĂveis. Gitleaks
- Gitleaks – Protect and Discover Secrets
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Gitleaks: Find forgotten codes in your repositories
github repository here
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Cloud Security and Resilience: DevSecOps Tools and Practices
1. Gitleaks: https://github.com/gitleaks/gitleaks Gitleaks provides a way for developers to find and prevent security breaches by scanning Git repositories for secrets like passwords and API keys.
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How to use Lefthooks in your node project?
install gitleaks in your machine gitleaks
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I Analyzed StackOverflow for Secrets
> gitleaks : fatal error: runtime: out of memory
Should be fixed now: https://github.com/gitleaks/gitleaks/pull/1292. Thanks for highlighting this simple change I've been putting off :)
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[Help Needed] Securing Customized Gitleaks and Backend Communication?
I work in IT and we're enhancing our 'Shift Left Security' approach to prevent sensitive data leaks in our GitHub repositories. We've customized Gitleaks to send git-related information (like remote repository, author details, commit hash etc.) to our backend after each commit. This setup helps us monitor Gitleaks usage among our developers. (gitleaks)
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Go Security Scanner
Cool. What features/capabilities are different compared to gitleaks?
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My boss keeps committing his creds into git
To add my anecdote, testing out Trufflehog versus Gitleaks and detect-secrets the other tools seemed superior on detection rate and easier to work with.
semgrep
Posts with mentions or reviews of semgrep.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-04-14.
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SAST vs SCA: Choosing the Right Source Code Security Scanning Tools
Use Semgrep (SAST) to scan any code developed by you and your team. Semgrep’s Community Edition is open-source and remains a free SAST solution that is accessible to small teams. A subscription is necessary for larger code bases with many contributors and enterprise-grade security needs.
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Vibe Check: Securing AI-Generated Code Using MCP
Semgrep is a fast, powerful static analysis tool that uses a rule-based engine to scan source-code and identify security vulnerabilities, bugs, and other code quality issues. It is used by many enterprises and developers as part of a traditional software development lifecycle. There is a free open-source community edition that can be used for scanning individual source code listings as well as a managed platform and services for more sophisticated and professional development teams and workflows.
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Show HN: Globstar – Open-source static analysis toolkit
For C, you might be interested in https://github.com/weggli-rs/weggli or https://github.com/semgrep/semgrep (I work on the latter). Both are also tree-sitter based.
- Análise Comparativa: Aider vs. PMD vs. Semgrep
- Análise Estática de Código com AST
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Top 11 DevOps Security Tools
2. Semgrep
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How to make “Input validation” easy for your devs
Also, we can use a tool like Semgrep to audit the use of the middleware through all routes using a custom rule, to show a simple example we can use a rule like the below (Note this is just example which covers one way of defining routes in Express, for production the rule needs to be extended to include all other ways of defining routes).
- Semgrep: Semantic Grep for Code
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A Deep Dive Into Terraform Static Code Analysis Tools: Features and Comparisons
Semgrep OSS Owner/Maintainer: Semgrep Age: First release on GitHub on February 6th, 2020 License: GNU Lesser General Public License v2.1
- Semgrep – Find bugs and enforce code standards
What are some alternatives?
When comparing gitleaks and semgrep you can also consider the following projects:
trufflehog - Find, verify, and analyze leaked credentials
SonarQube - Continuous Inspection
trivy - Find vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, secrets, SBOM in containers, Kubernetes, code repositories, clouds and more
Spotbugs - SpotBugs is FindBugs' successor. A tool for static analysis to look for bugs in Java code.
shhgit - Ah shhgit! Find secrets in your code. Secrets detection for your GitHub, GitLab and Bitbucket repositories.
snyk - Snyk CLI scans and monitors your projects for security vulnerabilities. [Moved to: https://github.com/snyk/cli]