lz520520/railgun

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2289 stars · 247 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Railgun is a GUI-based penetration testing tool that automates common tasks from manual pentesting experience. It integrates port scanning, port brute-forcing, web fingerprinting, vulnerability scanning, vulnerability exploitation, and encoding conversion, with plugin support via railgunlib.

Use cases

• scan target hosts for open ports
• brute-force services like ssh or ftp
• fingerprint web applications and technologies
• scan for known vulnerabilities
• exploit discovered vulnerabilities
• convert encodings during pentesting

When to choose

• you want an all-in-one GUI tool for common penetration testing tasks
• you need automated port scanning, fingerprinting, and exploitation in one place
• you want to extend a pentest tool with custom plugins

When to avoid

• you need a scriptable CLI or API-driven scanner for CI pipelines
• you require a fully open, auditable codebase (license and source details are unclear)
• you need a compliance-grade or actively maintained enterprise vulnerability scanner

Facets

application · maturity active

penetration-testing security gui vulnerability-scanning networking security penetration-testing developer-tools windows cross-platform port-scanning brute-force web-fingerprinting exploitation encoding-conversion pentest-toolkit plugin-system macos linux desktop

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