MalDet report — terraform-linters/tflint-ruleset-aws

Summary

5 findings likely need attention. Most notable: Detected non-static command inside Command. Audit the input to 'exec.Command'. If unver... (46% confidence).

Generated from finding counts. A plain-English summary was not available for this scan.

Risk, by type

MalDet scores two different questions separately, because they call for different responses: code can be badly written without being hostile, and hostile code is not always badly written.

Vulnerability

Low (14)

Insecure coding an attacker could exploit. Usually mistakes, and usually fixable in place.

Malicious pattern

Low (1)

Signs the code may be trying to do harm: hidden payloads, credential access, persistence, exfiltration.

What each detector found

Detector	Looks for	High	Medium	Low	Total
semgrep	Insecure coding patterns across many languages	1	4	0	5
guarddog	Malicious package and install-time behaviour	0	0	1	1

5 of 6 findings were rated more likely genuine than noise by the classifier.

Evidence

Identical findings are grouped, so a single rule firing many times takes one row. Ordered worst first. “Seen” is how many times that finding occurred.

Severity	Detector	Finding	Seen	Example location
high	semgrep	Detected non-static command inside Command. Audit the input to 'exec.Command'. If unverified user data can reach this call site, this is a code injection vulnerability. A malicious actor can inject a malicious script to execute arbitrary code.	1	/tools/release/main.go:250
medium	semgrep	This Dependabot configuration does not set a cooldown period. Newly published packages can be malicious or unstable. Add a `cooldown` block with `default-days: 7` to each `package-ecosystem` entry under `updates` to wait 7 days before proposing updates to newly published package versions. Reference:	2	/.github/dependabot.yml:21
medium	semgrep	When working with web applications that involve rendering user-generated content, it's important to properly escape any HTML content to prevent Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) attacks. In Go, the `text/template` package does not automatically escape HTML content, which can leave your application vuln	2	/rules/tags/generator/main.go:11
low	guarddog	Detects reading of environment variables (credential access, often contains secrets) [threat-runtime-environment-read]	1	/tools/release/main.go:20

How to read this report

This is a static scan. The code was read, never executed. Behaviour that only appears at runtime is outside what any of these detectors can see.
Findings are not all equally real. A classifier rates each finding on how likely it is to be genuine rather than noise, and that rating weights the scores. Measured against a hand-reviewed sample it reached precision 0.52 and recall 0.62 — useful for ranking, not a verdict on any single finding.
A high score is not proof of malice. Security tools, penetration-testing frameworks and malware research repositories contain the same patterns as real malware by design. The two risk types above exist to keep that distinction visible.
Absence of findings is not proof of safety. A detector that is not installed, or a language none of them parse, produces silence rather than a warning.
This scan is a snapshot. The repository may have changed since 24 September 2026.