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Foxguard

A blazingly fast security scanner, written in Rust. Batteries included, TUI for triage, secrets, post-quantum audits, diff-aware scans and more ๐“ƒฅ

From 0sec-labsยทUpdated June 21, 2026ยทView on GitHubยท

A fast security scanner. Completely free. 10+ languages supported. The project is written primarily in Rust, distributed under the MIT License license, first published in 2026. Key topics include: cli, code-security, linter, opengrep, pre-commit.

Latest release: v0.9.0
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sh
npx foxguard .
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Features

  • Sub-second scans on real codebases -- fast enough for pre-commit hooks
  • Completely free -- local scans, CI usage, and GitHub PR checks without a paid tier
  • 10+ languages supported -- JS/TS, Python, Go, Ruby, Java, PHP, Rust, C#, Swift, Kotlin, C
  • Cross-file taint tracking with intraprocedural dataflow and cross-file summaries
  • Diff scans -- only new findings since a target branch
  • Secrets scanning -- AWS keys, GitHub/GitLab/Slack/Stripe tokens, private keys
  • Dependency vulnerability scanning -- OSV-backed SCA for Cargo, npm, pnpm, pip, Poetry, and Pipenv lockfiles
  • Post-quantum crypto audit -- CNSA 2.0 migration deadlines on every finding
  • Semgrep/OpenGrep-compatible YAML bridge -- load external rule packs via --rules
  • Interactive TUI -- triage, baseline, ignore, severity overrides
  • Output formats -- terminal, JSON, SARIF, CycloneDX 1.6 CBOM
  • GitHub App -- auto-scans PRs, posts inline comments, check runs

Install

sh
npx foxguard . # zero install curl -fsSL https://foxguard.dev/install.sh | sh # prebuilt binary (macOS/Linux) cargo install foxguard # from source

Prebuilt installs verify release SHA-256 checksums before using downloaded
binaries. Signed GitHub artifact attestations are published for release binaries;
see release provenance for manual verification.

GitHub Action:

yaml
- uses: 0sec-labs/foxguard/action@v0.9.0 with: path: . severity: medium fail-on-findings: "true" upload-sarif: "true"

The action verifies the downloaded binary against checksums.txt. Provenance
verification is available as a separate gh attestation verify policy step.

pre-commit:

yaml
repos: - repo: https://github.com/0sec-labs/foxguard rev: v0.9.0 hooks: - id: foxguard

VS Code: Install extension -- scans on save, inline findings.

Claude Code: claude --plugin-dir ./plugins/claude-code -- see docs.

MCP server: foxguard-mcp exposes scan, diff, secrets, PQC, SARIF/CBOM,
rule, explanation, and suppression tools -- see docs.

Quick start

sh
foxguard . # scan everything foxguard diff main . # only new findings vs main foxguard secrets . # leaked credentials and keys foxguard sca . # dependency vulnerabilities from OSV foxguard pqc . # post-quantum crypto audit foxguard tui . # interactive triage UI foxguard --format sarif . > results.sarif # SARIF for CI

GitHub App

Install foxguard on GitHub

Scans every pull request automatically. Posts inline comments on new findings and reports check run status. Zero config -- install and it works.

Supported languages

LanguageTaint trackingFramework-aware
JavaScript / TypeScriptYesExpress, Next.js
PythonYesDjango, Flask, FastAPI
GoYesGin
KotlinYesSpring
Java--Spring
Ruby--Rails
PHP--Laravel
Rust----
C#--.NET
Swift--iOS
C--via Semgrep YAML / Coccinelle

Post-quantum crypto audit

sh
foxguard pqc .
src/tls/client.go
  42:14  HIGH  go/pq-vulnerable-crypto (CWE-327)
         ECDH P-256 is not post-quantum safe.
         CNSA 2.0 deadline: traditional networking equipment, 2030.

Each finding carries its CNSA 2.0 migration deadline. Covers Python, JS/TS, Go, Java, Rust, and TLS config files. Export as CycloneDX 1.6 CBOM with --format cbom.

Dependency vulnerability scanning

sh
foxguard sca . foxguard --sca . --format json foxguard sca . --sca-offline --sca-db ./osv-advisories.json

SCA supports Cargo.lock, package-lock.json, pnpm-lock.yaml, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, and Pipfile.lock. Offline mode uses --sca-db or an existing --sca-cache; without either, OSV lookup is skipped and normal/PQ manifest rules still run. See docs/dependency-scanning.md.

Configuration

foxguard auto-discovers .foxguard.yml from the scan path upward.

yaml
scan: baseline: .foxguard/baseline.json disable_rules: [py/no-eval] severity_overrides: py/no-hardcoded-secret: medium secrets: exclude_paths: [fixtures, testdata]

Suppress an accepted finding inline with // foxguard: ignore[rule-id].

Benchmarks

RepoLoCfoxguardSemgrepSpeedup
express15K JS0.28s6.09s22x
flask14K Py0.33s6.51s20x
gin18K Go0.50s4.95s10x
sentry1.3M Py35s194s5x

Reproduce: ./benchmarks/run.sh. See benchmarks/README.md.

Contributing

Adding a rule is one struct implementing a trait. See CONTRIBUTING.md.

License

MIT OR Apache-2.0 -- 0sec Labs

Contributors

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