Open-source penetration-testing software

861 open-source libraries, tools and applications tagged penetration-testing, ranked by how closely penetration-testing is their primary purpose, then by adoption and maintenance health. Each entry links to a page with sources, use cases and when to choose or avoid it.

861 products, primary matches first, then adoption-weighted; health v2 shown.

Product	Health v2	Stars	Maturity
Z4nzu/hackingtool An all-in-one, menu-driven Python toolkit that aggregates 215 curated security testing tools across 21 categories such as recon, OSINT, web…	73	80077	active
Metasploit Framework Metasploit Framework is an open-source penetration testing platform written in Ruby. It provides a collection of exploits, payloads, and au…	75	39058	active
sqlmap sqlmap is an open‑source command‑line tool that automates detection and exploitation of SQL injection flaws. It can fingerprint databases, …	72	38549	active
sqlmap sqlmap is an open-source penetration testing tool that automates the detection and exploitation of SQL injection flaws and the takeover of …	72	38549	stable
mukul975/Anthropic-Cybersecurity-Skills A large open-source library of structured cybersecurity skills (Markdown files with YAML frontmatter) for AI coding agents, mapped to frame…	73	33126	active
cloudflare/security-audit-skill A coding-agent skill from Cloudflare that turns an LLM coding agent into a security auditor via a six-phase pipeline (recon, hunting, valid…	56	26974	active
robertdavidgraham/masscan Masscan is an Internet-scale TCP port scanner written in C that transmits 10 million SYN packets per second, capable of scanning the entire…	54	26042	active
MobSF/Mobile-Security-Framework-MobSF MobSF is an automated all-in-one mobile application security testing framework for Android, iOS, and Windows Mobile apps. It performs stati…	94	21980	active
gentilkiwi/mimikatz mimikatz is a well-known Windows security tool written in C that extracts plaintext passwords, hashes, PINs, and Kerberos tickets from memo…	54	21909	active
bettercap bettercap is a Go-based, all-in-one framework for network reconnaissance and man-in-the-middle attacks across WiFi, Bluetooth Low Energy, w…	82	20111	active
ZPhisher Zphisher is a beginner-friendly, automated phishing toolkit written in Bash with 30+ ready-made login page templates. It supports multiple …	23	17031	active
ffuf ffuf is a fast web fuzzer written in Go used for discovering directories, virtual hosts, and parameters by brute-forcing HTTP requests. It …	96	16880	stable
MatrixTM/MHDDoS MHDDoS is a Python 3 command-line DDoS attack script offering 57 flood methods across Layer 7 (HTTP) and Layer 4 (TCP/UDP), including bypas…	86	16730	active
GreyDGL/PentestGPT PentestGPT is an AI-powered penetration testing agent framework that drives LLMs (Claude Code, Codex, or many providers in legacy mode) to …	65	15948	active
Zed Attack Proxy (ZAP) Zed Attack Proxy (ZAP) by Checkmarx is a free, open-source web application security scanner used for finding vulnerabilities in web apps du…	74	15865	stable
trustedsec/social-engineer-toolkit The Social-Engineer Toolkit (SET) is an open-source Python-based penetration testing framework for authorized social-engineering assessment…	67	15346	active
maurosoria/dirsearch dirsearch is an advanced web path scanner that brute-forces directories and files on web servers using wordlists. It is a Python CLI tool w…	84	14811	active
shadow1ng/fscan Fscan is a comprehensive intranet scanning tool written in Go that automates host discovery, port scanning, service identification, weak-pa…	91	14590	active
OJ/gobuster Gobuster is a fast, multi-threaded brute-forcing tool written in Go for enumerating web directories/files, DNS subdomains, virtual hosts, c…	76	14150	active
OWASP Juice Shop OWASP Juice Shop is an intentionally insecure web application written in Node.js, Express, and Angular that covers vulnerabilities from the…	95	14148	active
digininja/DVWA Damn Vulnerable Web Application (DVWA) is a PHP/MariaDB web application intentionally riddled with common web vulnerabilities at multiple d…	67	13809	active
nmap/nmap Nmap is the industry-standard open-source network scanner for host discovery, port scanning, service/version detection, and OS fingerprinti…	77	13743	stable
threat9/routersploit RouterSploit is an open-source exploitation framework dedicated to embedded devices like routers, modeled after Metasploit. It provides mod…	55	13256	active
Marauder ESP32 Marauder is a suite of WiFi and Bluetooth offensive and defensive security tools distributed as firmware for ESP32-based hardware. It…	99	12834	active
jopohl/urh Universal Radio Hacker (URH) is a complete open-source suite for investigating wireless protocols, with native support for many common Soft…	10	12592	active
Atomic Red Team Atomic Red Team is a library of small, portable detection tests mapped to the MITRE ATT&CK framework, letting security teams validate their…	75	12582	active
0x4m4/hexstrike-ai HexStrike AI is an MCP server that bridges LLM agents (Claude, GPT, Copilot) with 150+ cybersecurity tools for autonomous penetration testi…	58	12431	active
vanhauser-thc/thc-hydra THC-Hydra is a parallelized network login cracker supporting dozens of protocols (SSH, FTP, HTTP forms, SMB, RDP, databases, and more). It …	74	12322	active
BishopFox/sliver Sliver is an open-source cross-platform adversary emulation and red team framework written in Go. It generates dynamically compiled implant…	98	11996	active
chaitin/xray xray is a security assessment tool from Chaitin that scans web applications for common vulnerabilities like XSS and SQL injection, supporti…	23	11752	active
1N3/Sn1per Sn1per is an open-source automated penetration testing and attack surface management platform that chains reconnaissance, scanning, exploit…	60	11373	active
beefproject/beef BeEF (Browser Exploitation Framework) is a penetration testing tool focused on the web browser, hooking one or more browsers and using them…	69	11046	active
sullo/nikto Nikto is a Perl-based command-line web server scanner that tests servers for dangerous files, outdated software, misconfigurations, and kno…	86	10747	active
samratashok/nishang Nishang is a framework and collection of PowerShell scripts and payloads for offensive security, penetration testing, and red teaming. It c…	23	10125	active
malwaredllc/byob BYOB is an open-source post-exploitation framework written in Python, featuring a command-and-control server with a web GUI, a cross-platfo…	77	9512	active
sensepost/objection objection is a runtime mobile exploration toolkit powered by Frida for assessing the security posture of iOS and Android applications witho…	86	9412	active
NVIDIA/garak garak is a command-line LLM vulnerability scanner that probes large language models for failures like hallucination, data leakage, prompt i…	89	9332	active
frohoff/ysoserial ysoserial is a proof-of-concept command-line tool that generates serialized Java payloads exploiting unsafe object deserialization using ga…	44	9088	active
Havoc Havoc is a modern, malleable post-exploitation command and control (C2) framework with a Go teamserver, a Qt-based cross-platform client, a…	10	8505	active
six2dez/reconftw reconFTW is an open-source (MIT) automated reconnaissance framework written in Shell that orchestrates 80+ security tools to perform full r…	82	8155	active
v1s1t0r1sh3r3/airgeddon A multi-use bash script for auditing wireless networks on Linux, wrapping tools like aircrack-ng to automate attacks such as evil twin, WPS…	93	8035	active
PCILeech PCILeech is DMA attack software that uses PCIe hardware devices (or software memory acquisition methods) to read and write target system me…	62	7945	active
mandiant/commando-vm Commando VM is a fully customizable Windows-based security distribution for penetration testing and red teaming, packaged as a PowerShell i…	50	7824	active
hfiref0x/UACME UACMe is a C-based command-line tool that demonstrates dozens of Windows User Account Control (UAC) bypass techniques abusing built-in Auto…	81	7821	active
yaklang/yakit Yakit is an all-in-one interactive application security testing platform built as a GUI client for the Yaklang security DSL engine over gRP…	93	7786	active
aircrack-ng/aircrack-ng Aircrack-ng is a complete suite of command-line tools for assessing WiFi network security, covering packet capture, injection, monitor mode…	65	7705	active
apache/caldera Apache Caldera is a cybersecurity platform for automated adversary emulation built on the MITRE ATT&CK framework. It provides an asynchrono…	75	7317	active
ayoubfaouzi/al-khaser Al-Khaser is a proof-of-concept Windows application that demonstrates a wide range of malware anti-analysis techniques, including anti-debu…	67	7141	active
guardicore/monkey Infection Monkey is an open-source adversary emulation platform that simulates malware-like self-propagation across a network to test secur…	28	7098	active
Bruce Bruce is an open-source (AGPL-3.0) ESP32 firmware packed with offensive-security and Red Team tools such as WiFi attacks, Evil Portal, ward…	88	6946	active
Tencent/AI-Infra-Guard Tencent's full-stack AI red teaming platform that scans AI infrastructure, agents, MCP servers, and skills for vulnerabilities and evaluate…	85	6916	active
urbanadventurer/WhatWeb WhatWeb is a command-line web scanner that identifies the technologies powering websites, including CMSs, web servers, JavaScript libraries…	70	6869	stable
ticarpi/jwt_tool A Python command-line toolkit for validating, forging, scanning, and tampering with JSON Web Tokens (JWTs). It automates checks for known J…	28	6770	active
The-Z-Labs/linux-exploit-suggester A shell-based auditing tool that assesses a Linux system's exposure to publicly known kernel privilege escalation exploits based on kernel …	62	6626	active
j3ssie/osmedeus Osmedeus is a security-focused declarative orchestration engine that lets users define reconnaissance and vulnerability-scanning pipelines …	94	6602	active
EnableSecurity/wafw00f WAFW00F is a Python command-line tool that identifies and fingerprints Web Application Firewall (WAF) products protecting a website. It sen…	72	6574	stable
Mebus/cupp CUPP is a Python CLI tool that generates targeted password wordlists by profiling personal information about a user, such as birthdays, nic…	70	6546	active
elder-plinius/T3MP3ST T3MP3ST is a multi-agent offensive-security framework that turns existing AI coding agents (Claude Code, Codex, Ollama, etc.) into autonomo…	65	6496	active
zmap/zmap ZMap is a fast, stateless single-packet network scanner written in C, designed for Internet-wide network surveys such as scanning the entir…	84	6390	active
AzeemIdrisi/PhoneSploit-Pro PhoneSploit Pro is an all-in-one Python CLI tool for remotely exploiting and testing Android devices using ADB and the Metasploit Framework…	90	6343	active
PurpleAILAB/Decepticon Decepticon is an autonomous AI red-team hacking agent that uses LLMs (built on LangChain/LangGraph) to plan and execute context-aware offen…	83	6328	active
Bjorn Bjorn is an autonomous network scanning and offensive security tool that runs on a Raspberry Pi with a 2.13-inch e-Paper HAT. It discovers …	58	6328	active
k8gege/K8tools K8tools is a large curated collection of penetration testing and offensive security tools covering internal network penetration, privilege …	32	6234	active
mishakorzik/AllHackingTools AllHackingTools is an all-in-one installer and menu system for Termux that automates downloading and installing a large collection of penet…	75	6215	active
GhostTroops/scan4all scan4all is a Go-based automated vulnerability scanning and reconnaissance tool that integrates vscan, nuclei, ksubdomain, and subfinder. I…	23	6178	active
AutoRecon/AutoRecon AutoRecon is a multi-threaded Python CLI tool that automates network reconnaissance by performing port and service detection scans, then la…	57	6128	active
FluxionNetwork/fluxion Fluxion is a security auditing and social-engineering research tool that retrieves WPA/WPA2 keys via phishing attacks using rogue access po…	92	5985	active
NetExec NetExec (nxc) is a community-maintained, open-source network execution tool and successor to CrackMapExec, used for pentesting and red-team…	74	5882	active
commix Commix (short for command injection exploiter) is an open-source penetration testing tool that automates the detection and exploitation of …	72	5874	active
RedSiege/EyeWitness EyeWitness is a Python CLI tool that takes screenshots of websites using headless Chromium, captures server header information, and identif…	46	5858	active
OWASP/Nettacker OWASP Nettacker is a Python-based automated penetration testing and information-gathering framework for reconnaissance, vulnerability scann…	84	5616	active
trustedsec/ptf The PenTesters Framework (PTF) is a Python-based modular framework that installs, compiles, and keeps penetration testing tools up to date …	32	5573	active
Hackplayers/evil-winrm Evil-WinRM is a Ruby-based command-line WinRM shell designed for hacking and penetration testing of Windows servers. It supports features l…	89	5552	active
drk1wi/Modlishka Modlishka is an open-source penetration testing tool written in Go that acts as a transparent man-in-the-middle reverse proxy. It can proxy…	63	5427	active
RhinoSecurityLabs/pacu Pacu is an open-source AWS exploitation framework for offensive security testing of Amazon Web Services environments. It provides a modular…	67	5345	active
Ladon Ladon is a large-scale internal network penetration scanner written in C#, offering port scanning, service identification, network asset di…	25	5333	active
hahwul/dalfox Dalfox is an open-source XSS vulnerability scanner written in Rust that automates discovery, injection, and DOM/AST-level verification of r…	99	5326	active
Awarexone/Agentic-Bug-Hunter An AI-powered bug bounty hunting toolkit that automates reconnaissance, vulnerability testing, finding validation, and report generation fo…	75	5294	active
Ullaakut/cameradar Cameradar is a Go-based command-line tool that scans targets for open RTSP video surveillance endpoints and uses dictionary attacks to disc…	94	5234	active
techchipnet/CamPhish CamPhish is a bash-based penetration-testing tool that hosts a fake webpage on a built-in PHP server and exposes it via ngrok or CloudFlare…	37	5147	active
elementalsouls/Claude-BugHunter A Claude Code skill bundle that turns Claude into a bug-hunting and red-team assistant, with 83 skills, 15 slash commands, and 681 disclose…	75	5041	active
V4bel/dirtyfrag Dirty Frag is a proof-of-concept Linux kernel local privilege escalation exploit written in C. It chains the xfrm-ESP (CVE-2026-43284) and …	47	5018	active
its-a-feature/Mythic Mythic is a collaborative, multi-platform post-exploitation red teaming framework built with Go, Docker, and a web browser UI. It provides …	76	4837	active
cdk-team/CDK CDK is a zero-dependency container penetration toolkit written in Go for security testing of Kubernetes, Docker, and Containerd environment…	64	4767	active
microsoft/PyRIT PyRIT is Microsoft's open-source Python framework for identifying security and safety risks in generative AI systems. It provides automatio…	88	4664	active
Drozer Security Assessment Framework drozer is an open-source security assessment framework for Android that lets testers assume the role of an app and interact with the Androi…	53	4621	active
samsesh/SocialBox-Termux SocialBox-Termux is a shell-based brute-force attack framework targeting social media and email services like Facebook, Gmail, Instagram, a…	68	4548	active
jonaslejon/malicious-pdf A Python CLI tool that generates 67 malicious PDF test files embedding callbacks for SSRF, XSS, XXE, NTLM credential theft, and data exfilt…	91	4483	active
BeichenDream/Godzilla Godzilla is a Java-based webshell management tool supporting dynamic payloads for JSP, ASPX, and PHP targets with multiple AES/XOR encrypto…	23	4467	active
t3l3machus/Villain Villain is a high-level stage 0/1 command-and-control (C2) framework written in Python that handles multiple reverse TCP and HoaxShell-base…	29	4460	active
zan8in/afrog afrog is an open-source security tool written in Go for vulnerability scanning using PoC (Proof of Concept) rules. It is designed for bug b…	99	4431	active
TideSec/TscanPlus TscanPlus is a comprehensive network security detection and operations tool for rapid asset discovery, identification, and vulnerability de…	92	4407	active
baihengaead/wlan-sec-test-tool A Python-based GUI tool for wireless network security testing that checks WiFi networks for weak passwords by attempting connections with a…	67	4243	active
guelfoweb/knockpy KnockPy is a modular Python 3 CLI tool for enumerating subdomains of a target domain using passive reconnaissance sources and DNS bruteforc…	58	4204	active
sooryathejas/METATRON METATRON is a CLI-based AI penetration testing assistant that runs a local LLM (via Ollama) entirely offline on Linux, primarily Parrot OS.…	46	4178	active
cifertech/ESP32-DIV ESP32-DIV is open-source firmware (with open schematics and PCB files) for a custom ESP32-S3 handheld device that bundles Wi-Fi, BLE, 2.4GH…	86	4146	active
r0oth3x49/ghauri Ghauri is a cross-platform Python CLI tool that automates detection and exploitation of SQL injection vulnerabilities in web applications. …	48	4079	active
theori-io/copy-fail-CVE-2026-31431 A proof-of-concept exploit for CVE-2026-31431, a Linux kernel local privilege escalation bug in the authencesn cryptographic template that …	47	4075	active
diego-treitos/linux-smart-enumeration A POSIX-compliant shell script that enumerates a local Linux system's security posture to help escalate privileges during pentesting and CT…	55	3992	active
itm4n/PrivescCheck A PowerShell enumeration script that identifies common Windows privilege escalation vulnerabilities and misconfigurations. It also collects…	98	3987	active