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chaitin/SafeLine

SafeLine is a self-hosted WAF(Web Application Firewall) / reverse proxy to protect your web apps from attacks and exploits.

Stack

Go Gin gRPC Go Go modules

GitHub topics

#api-gateway #application-security #appsec #blueteam #bruteforce #captcha

Updated: 2026-09-10
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2023-04-11
History: 8 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 69 open

22,604

stars

Forks: 1,533
Commits: 927 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

crowdsecurity/crowdsec

Open-source IDS/IPS, WAF and bot detection for Linux, Windows, Docker and Kubernetes, with a crowdsourced blocklist of malicious IPs.

AI dev

Stack

Go Cobra Gin gRPC Go Go modules

GitHub topics

#anti-bot #blocklist #bot-detection #bot-protection #cybersecurity #docker

Updated: 2026-10-07
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2020-05-15
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 308 open

15,103

stars

Forks: 729
Commits: 2,799 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

bunkerity/bunkerweb

🛡️ Open-source and cloud-native Web Application Firewall (WAF)

AI dev

Stack

Python FastAPI Flask Starlette CMake .NET SDK Go modules

GitHub topics

#antibot #cybersecurity #devops #devsecops #dnsbl #docker

Updated: 2026-10-07
Lists: 5 list mentions
First commit: 2019-08-20
History: 11 history points
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: 197 open

11,061

stars

Forks: 649
Commits: 10,816 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

nbs-system/naxsi

NAXSI is an open-source, high performance, low rules maintenance WAF for NGINX

Archived

Stack

C pip

GitHub topics

#c #naxsi #nginx #waf

Updated: 2023-11-08
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-07-28
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 0 open

4,806

stars

Forks: 594
Commits: 761 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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trimstray/htrace.sh

My simple Swiss Army knife for http/https troubleshooting and profiling.

Stack

Shell

GitHub topics

#debugging-tools #http-requests #https-troubleshoting #httptracer #mozilla-observatory #nmap

Updated: 2024-11-19
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-07-12
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 13 open

3,864

stars

Forks: 244
Commits: 745 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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baidu/openrasp

🔥Open source RASP solution

Stack

C++ Spring Boot Symfony Vue Composer Go modules Maven

GitHub topics

#devsecops #iast #rasp #security #waf

Updated: 2025-10-02
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-08-10
History: 5 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 62 open

2,987

stars

Forks: 623
Commits: 4,596 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

Ekultek/WhatWaf

Detect and bypass web application firewalls and protection systems

Stack

Python pip

GitHub topics

#bypass #detection #fingerprinting #firewall #waf #web-application

Updated: 2024-08-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-12-15
History: 5 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 478 open

2,930

stars

Forks: 465
Commits: 398 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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openappsec/openappsec

open-appsec is a machine learning security engine that preemptively and automatically prevents threats against Web Application & APIs. This repo include the main code and logic.

Stack

C++ CMake

GitHub topics

#api-security #application-security #appsec #devsecops #kong #kubernetes

Updated: 2026-09-06
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2022-10-26
History: 5 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 38 open

1,717

stars

Forks: 137
Commits: 529 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

Safe3/uusec-waf

Industry-leading free, high-performance, AI and semantic technology Web Application Firewall and API Security Gateway (WAAP) - UUSEC WAF.

Stack

Shell

GitHub topics

#api-gateway #api-security #application-security #data-mask #ddos #hips

Updated: 2026-09-06
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2022-09-18
History: 8 history points
License: BSD-2-Clause
Issues: 83 open

1,713

stars

Forks: 170
Commits: 619 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

bountyyfi/lonkero

Lonkero - Wraps around your attack surface. Professional-grade scanner for real penetration testing. Fast. Modular. Rust.

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#appsec #cve-scanning #cybersecurity #hackers #offensive-security #pentesting

Updated: 2026-08-16
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2025-12-05
History: 5 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 12 open

1,101

stars

Forks: 92
Commits: 969 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

TeaWeb/build

TeaWeb-可视化的Web代理服务。DEMO: http://teaos.cn:7777

Archived

Stack

Go Cobra gRPC Go Go modules npm

GitHub topics

#api #fastcgi #golang #http2 #log #monitor

Updated: 2023-02-25
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-10-10
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 32 open

750

stars

Forks: 189
Commits: 623 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

JasonLovesDoggo/caddy-defender

Caddy module to block or manipulate requests originating from AIs or cloud services trying to train on your websites

Stack

Go Cobra gRPC Go Go modules

GitHub topics

#ai #ai-blocker #blocker #blockers #caddy #caddy-plugin

Updated: 2026-09-21
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2025-01-14
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 18 open

580

stars

Forks: 24
Commits: 337 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

tl-open-source/tl-ops-manage

api-gateway, framework for service management based on openresty。balance, health-check, limit-fuse, waf, 负载均衡，健康检查，服务熔断，服务限流，动态配置，数据统计, waf过滤，黑白名单，基于openresty的API网关

Stack

Lua

GitHub topics

#api-gateway #balance #health-check #limiter #lua #openresty

Updated: 2023-07-31
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2021-12-22
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 2 open

253

stars

Forks: 47
Commits: 164 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

TeaOSLab/EdgeAdmin

CDN & WAF集群管理系统。

Stack

JavaScript gRPC Go Go modules npm

GitHub topics

#cdn #dns #golang #http2 #http3 #ipv6

Updated: 2024-12-12
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-07-22
History: 6 history points
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 17 open

196

stars

Forks: 82
Commits: 2,115 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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