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Top 13 Python security-scanner Projects
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Static Analysis: Tools like Bandit or SonarQube to catch code-level issues.
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Civic Auth
Simple auth for Python backends. Drop Civic Auth into your Python backend with just a few lines of code. Email login, SSO, and route protection built-in. Minimal config. Works with FastAPI, Flask, or Django.
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Reconnoitre
A security tool for multithreaded information gathering and service enumeration whilst building directory structures to store results, along with writing out recommendations for further testing.
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tartufo
Searches through git repositories for high entropy strings and secrets, digging deep into commit history
Project mention: Tartufo searches through Git repositories for high entropy strings and secrets | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-10-31 -
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Project mention: A humble, and fast, security-oriented HTTP headers analyzer | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-07-29
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xssmap
Intelligent XSS detection tool that uses human techniques for looking for reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities
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python-project-template
Python project template with a starting structure, CI/CD. linting, testing, and code coverage analysis (by dagpunk)
NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
Python security-scanner discussion
Python security-scanner related posts
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🔒 Bandit: Python Static Application Security Testing Guide
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🛡️ How to Use Bandit as a SAST Tool for Your Python App
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Tartufo searches through Git repositories for high entropy strings and secrets
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Tartufo searches through Git repositories for high entropy strings and secrets
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Enhance your python code security using bandit
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Index
What are some of the best open-source security-scanner projects in Python? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
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| 1 | bandit | 7,262 |
| 2 | Raccoon | 3,188 |
| 3 | Reconnoitre | 2,159 |
| 4 | rapidscan | 1,912 |
| 5 | oxo | 556 |
| 6 | tartufo | 506 |
| 7 | embark | 356 |
| 8 | humble | 330 |
| 9 | kcare-uchecker | 182 |
| 10 | xssmap | 150 |
| 11 | malwarescanner | 92 |
| 12 | masscan_as_a_service | 29 |
| 13 | python-project-template | 3 |
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