No. 17 of 23 ·Secrets Scanning Software

scan4secrets

Windows · Linux

Freedom report

One barScore 5.3

Free tierA free tier is on its own pricing page
Open codeNo open-source code on record
Runs widely2 of 6 device platforms
DocumentedThinly documented

scan4secrets is ranked #17 of 23 in secrets scanning software on Freedom251. It runs on Linux, Windows. There is a free plan.

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MIT-licensed open-source CLI Free MIT License · source, pipx, and Docker installation scan4secrets.m14r41.in · 5 Oct 2026

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Free plan: Yes
Supported VCS: GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket
CI/CD scanning: Yes
Pre-commit scanning: Yes
Pull-request scanning: Yes
Custom detection rules: Yes

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The record

Purpose: The tool scans source trees, running web apps, and CI logs for leaked credentials, code vulnerabilities, and misconfigurations.
Rule coverage: It lists 416 rules: 193 secret rules and 223 vulnerability or misconfiguration rules.
DAST: Its web crawler parses JavaScript source maps, extracts endpoints, and scans response headers.
Live verification: An optional verification mode probes vendor APIs to check whether detected tokens are live.
Authenticated scans: Authenticated DAST supports cookies, headers, and Burp or ZAP proxies.
Vulnerability coverage: The SAST engine detects issues including injection, SSRF, XSS, weak cryptography, JWT flaws, and infrastructure configuration problems.
Reports: Output formats include SARIF, JSON, JSONL, CSV, HTML, Excel, and PDF.
CI integrations: The maker documents integration examples for pre-commit, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, and Docker in CI.
Rule customization: Users can add secret and vulnerability rules by editing YAML files without changing code.
Performance limits: The architecture page gives a default maximum file size of 10 MB and maximum line length of 4096 characters.
Report masking: Secret values appear in full by default, and the maker recommends using --mask before uploading reports to shared artifact stores.
License: The project is MIT licensed.
Intended users: The maker describes the tool as complementary to gitleaks for teams scanning live staging or production systems alongside source code.
Price from: Free

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Sources

scan4secrets.m14r41.in/docs/intro· checked 5 Oct 2026
scan4secrets.m14r41.in· checked 5 Oct 2026
scan4secrets.m14r41.in/docs/architecture· checked 5 Oct 2026
scan4secrets.m14r41.in/docs/ci-integration· checked 5 Oct 2026