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Open Source Security & Privacy Tools
Security tooling you can audit — because it is the point
All Security & Privacy tools
A list of useful payloads and bypass for Web Application Security and Pentest/CTF
A full desktop environment that runs in your browser
Secure collaboration platform for mission-critical work
Zero-config VPN with WireGuard for secure networking
Secure authentication and access control made simple
Secure storage and access control for secrets and sensitive data
817 structured cybersecurity skills for AI agents · Mapped to 6 frameworks: MITRE ATT&CK, NIST CSF 2.0, MITRE ATLAS, D3FEND, NIST AI RMF & MITRE F3 (Fight Fraud
Fully autonomous AI Agents system capable of performing complex penetration testing tasks
Advanced vulnerability detection and management platform
Secure access management for modern IT infrastructure
Framework-agnostic authentication for TypeScript applications
Zero Trust networking with WireGuard-based secure connectivity
Secure secret management for modern development teams
Secure, private photo storage and sharing solution
Private messaging with end-to-end encryption
The Single Sign-On Multi-Factor portal for web apps. OpenID Certified™ and Post-Quantum Cryptography Ready.
Take control of your identity with a secure, flexible solution
Zero trust network access that's better than VPN
Apache Casbin: an authorization library that supports access control models like ACL, RBAC, ABAC.
✨ 开源、免费、一站式 Java 权限认证框架,让鉴权变得简单、优雅!—— 登录认证、权限认证、分布式 Session 会话、微服务网关鉴权、SSO 单点登录、OAuth2.0 统一认证、jwt 集成、API Key 秘钥授权、API 参数签名
Self-hosted gym & body-weight tracker — plan routines, log workouts (supersets, warm-ups, cardio), see which muscles are trained, fatigued or detrained, import
Internet-scale OpenID Certified™ OpenID Connect and OAuth2.1 provider that integrates with your user management through headless APIs. Solve OIDC/OAuth2 user ca
Automated Penetration Testing Agentic Framework Powered by Large Language Models
Capture SSL/TLS plaintext with eBPF—no MITM proxy or custom CA installation. Supports Linux and Android on x86_64 and arm64.
Secure, customizable identity infrastructure for developers
Open-source IDS/IPS, WAF and bot detection for Linux, Windows, Docker and Kubernetes, with a crowdsourced blocklist of malicious IPs.
Osintgram is a OSINT tool on Instagram. It offers an interactive shell to perform analysis on Instagram account of any users by its nickname
Secure, customizable authentication for your applications
A reverse proxy that provides authentication with Google, Azure, OpenID Connect and many more identity providers.
Secure, seamless authentication for modern applications
An open-source Agent-first Identity and Access Management (IAM) /LLM MCP & agent gateway and auth server with web UI supporting OpenClaw, MCP, OAuth, OIDC, SAML
A certified and battle-tested identity solution
Feature flags for rapid, risk-free software deployment
Secure, decentralized messaging for teams and individuals
hydra
Agent-less vulnerability scanner for Linux, FreeBSD, Container, WordPress, Programming language libraries, Network devices
Apereo CAS - Identity & Single Sign On for all earthlings and beyond.
Vulnerability scanner written in Go which uses the data provided by https://osv.dev
OpenID Connect (OIDC) identity and OAuth 2.0 provider with pluggable connectors
Open source messaging with privacy and community focus
Integrated set of Django applications addressing authentication, registration, account management as well as 3rd party (social) account authentication. 🔁 Mirro
The most user-friendly OpenID Connect Certified™ and OAuth 2.0 provider that lets users sign in to your applications with passkeys.
Fast, flexible VPN replacement with zero-trust security
🛡️ A private certificate authority (X.509 & SSH) & ACME server for secure automated certificate management, so you can use TLS everywhere & SSO for SSH.
reNgine is an automated reconnaissance framework for web applications with a focus on highly configurable streamlined recon process via Engines, recon data corr
Open-source A/B testing and feature flagging platform
The tiniest OpenID Certified™ authorization and authentication server you have ever seen.
reconFTW is a tool designed to perform automated recon on a target domain by running the best set of tools to perform scanning and finding out vulnerabilities
Privacy-first CAPTCHA alternative with proof-of-work
Gather and update all available and newest CVEs with their PoC.
Secure email, calendar and contacts with end-to-end encryption
Lightweight vault and password manager for Android, KeePassDX allows editing encrypted data in a single file in KeePass format and fill in the forms in a secure
Next generation web scanner
Modular auth, payments, emails, and analytics for your product
Suricata is a network Intrusion Detection System, Intrusion Prevention System and Network Security Monitoring engine developed by the OISF and the Suricata comm
Feature flags and remote config for rapid deployment
All-in-One Hacking Tools For Hackers! And more hacking tools! For termux.
An all-in-one hacking tool to remotely take over Android devices.
Password manager app for Android
:key: stateless open source password manager
An Information Security Reference That Doesn't Suck; https://rmusser.net/git/admin-2/Infosec_Reference for non-MS Git hosted version.
Build scalable authorization in minutes, not months
Automated Penetration Testing Framework - Open-Source Vulnerability Scanner - Vulnerability Management
Secure, scalable API key management for developers
The AWS exploitation framework, designed for testing the security of Amazon Web Services environments.
Cameradar hacks its way into RTSP videosurveillance cameras
Git-native feature management for developers
the fastest and most powerful android decompiler(native tool working without Java VM) for the APK, DEX, ODEX, OAT, JAR, AAR, and CLASS file. which supports mali
A WiFi security auditing software
Secure, policy-based access control for modern applications
💀 Generate malicious PDF test files for testing phone-home callbacks, SSRF, XSS, NTLM credential theft, and data exfiltration in PDF viewers, converters, and w
A Security Tool for Bug Bounty, Pentest and Red Teaming.
System-wide ad-blocking and privacy protection, no extensions needed
Knock Subdomain Scan
A high performance offensive security tool for reconnaissance and vulnerability scanning
Secure and elegant Matrix client for seamless conversations
Open source security automation platform for builders
Easy integration with OAuth 2.0 service providers.
EMBA - The firmware security analyzer
Tool for Active Directory Certificate Services enumeration and abuse
Group chat for friends and communities, without the baggage
Container Image Linter for Security, Helping build the Best-Practice Docker Image, Easy to start
an SSO and OAuth / OIDC login solution for Nginx using the auth_request module
Open-source code security engine for developers
Open-source, self-hosted AI penetration testing framework: maps your attack surface into a graph, autonomously exploits it from a Kali sandbox with human approv
Autonomous penetration testing using a swarm of AI agents. Orchestrates recon, classification, exploitation, and reporting specialists with ReAct reasoning — su
Single Sign-On for Your Self-Hosted Universe
Zero-Trust VPN with built-in 2FA/MFA and SSO capabilities
Next-Gen CAPTCHA and Spam Protection, GDPR compliant
AuthPass - Password Manager based on Flutter for all platforms. Keepass 2.x (KDBX 3 and KDBX 4) compatible.
Patch-level verification for Bundler
Serverless team chat over Tor, no phone number needed
Semi-automatic OSINT framework and package manager
Secure collaboration platform with end-to-end encryption
Fast, multi-protocol credential brute-forcer. Parses Nmap, Nessus, and Nexpose output to automatically test default and custom credentials across 30+ protocols.
Secure, private, and decentralized file storage
Security engine for Java (authentication, authorization, multi frameworks): OpenID Connect, SAML2, CAS, OAuth, LDAP, JWT...
Privacy-first proof-of-work CAPTCHA without user friction
ARTEX 한국어판 · AI 자율 침투 테스트 프레임워크(upstream: Autumn-27/ARTEX, AGPL-3.0)
Tools to bootstrap CAs, certificate requests, and signed certificates.
The SpotBugs plugin for security audits of Java web applications and Android applications. (Also work with Kotlin, Groovy and Scala projects)
An NFC research toolkit application for Android
A simple vaultless password manager in Go
ezXSS is an easy way for penetration testers and bug bounty hunters to test (blind) Cross Site Scripting.
SpringBoot single sign-on authentication and authorization, implemented with OAuth 2.0, supporting cross-domain and distributed deployment.
🔐 Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting (AAA) App and Plugin for Caddy v2. 💎 Implements Form-Based, Basic, Local, LDAP, OpenID Connect, OAuth 2.0 (Git
Streamline your web application's authentication with Polis, an SSO service supporting SAML and OpenID Connect protocols. Beyond enterprise-grade Single Sign-On
AutomatedLab is a provisioning solution and framework that lets you deploy complex labs on HyperV and Azure with simple PowerShell scripts. It supports all Wind
linWinPwn is a bash script that streamlines the use of a number of Active Directory tools
Managed identity and access management for any app
A helm plugin that help manage secrets with Git workflow and store them anywhere
Tool that monitors, analyzes and limits the bandwidth of devices on the local network without administrative access
A distributed single-sign-on framework.(单点登录框架XXL-SSO)
802.11 Attack Tool
Directory Services Internals (DSInternals) PowerShell Module and Framework
Open-source feature flag management for seamless deployments
Cybersecurity Evaluation Tool
403/401 bypass tool: finds HTTP access-control bypasses via path, method, header and raw-request mutations. Baseline diff, auto-calibration, replayable curl evi
OSINT Tool: Generate username lists for companies on LinkedIn
A third-party ChatGPT Web UI page built with Express and Vue3, through the official OpenAI completion API. / 用 Express 和 Vue3 搭建的第三方 ChatGPT 前端页面, 基于 OpenAI 官方
A Modular Penetration Testing Framework
InQL is a robust, open-source Burp Suite extension for advanced GraphQL testing, offering intuitive vulnerability detection, customizable scans, and seamless Bu
safely install npm packages by auditing them pre-install stage
Gives you one-liners that aids in penetration testing operations, privilege escalation and more
:closed_lock_with_key: multi factor authentication system (2FA, MFA, OTP, FIDO Server)
Automatic SSTI detection tool with interactive interface
grep rough audit - source code auditing tool
A next generation version of enum4linux (a Windows/Samba enumeration tool) with additional features like JSON/YAML export. Aimed for security professionals and
Pass for iOS - an iOS client compatible with Pass command line application.
Self-hosted image hosting and sharing platform with private links, collections, S3/SMB storage, OIDC SSO and ShareX support.
GooFuzz is a tool to perform fuzzing with an OSINT approach, managing to enumerate directories, files, subdomains or parameters without leaving evidence on the
A fast tool to scan CRLF vulnerability written in Go
Manage secrets with Bash and GnuPG symmetric encryption
Security framework that protects from within your product
铜锁/Tongsuo is a Modern Cryptographic Primitives and Protocols Library
Obtain GraphQL API schema even if the introspection is disabled
OWASP Mutillidae II is a free, open-source, deliberately vulnerable web application providing a target for web-security training. This is an easy-to-use web hac
a digital safe with multiple keys, held by people you trust
SSH-MITM - ssh audits made simple
A KeePass/Password Safe Client for iOS and OS X
Passkeys, FIDO2 and WebAuthn .NET library.
Single Sign-On Identity & Access Management via OpenID Connect, OAuth 2, PAM
cwe_checker finds vulnerable patterns in binary executables
Information Gathering tool - DNS / Subdomains / Ports / Directories enumeration
A modular vulnerability scanner with automatic report generation capabilities.
Open-source universal artifact registry. Drop-in Artifactory/Nexus alternative with 40+ package formats, security scanning, WASM plugins, and edge replication.
Automatically create and renew website certificates for free using the Let's Encrypt certificate authority.
Monica Pass,Password Management, 2FA Generator
Lightweight Certificate Transparency Log Monitor
QtPass is a multi-platform GUI for pass, the standard unix password manager.
Free, open source BI platform with AI conversational analytics (BYO-LLM), pixel-perfect paginated reports, interactive dashboards, SSO, embedding, multi-tenancy
OpenID Certified™ OpenID Connect and FAPI 2 Relying Party module for Apache HTTPd
🗂️ FileRise – lightweight, self-hosted file manager & storage hub with granular ACLs, resumable uploads, encrypted folders, WebDAV & SSO. Fully Docker / Unraid
Tool for building Kubernetes attack paths
Systems Password Manager
十五个 AI 客户端的内置提示词一键替换:双击即用、可自证、改前备份、一键还原。v8.26:一键破甲全程托管(自动结束进程+注入+自动拉起)、注入步骤实时提示、写后自检回滚、托盘常驻。免装 Python 单文件 exe,完全免费开源。
EJBCA® – Open-source public key infrastructure (PKI) and certificate authority (CA) software.
🔑 Free Offline-first Password Manager
Secure, deploy, and manage application secrets effortlessly
A pass extension for importing data from most existing password managers
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🔐 Open source password manager with Nextcloud integration
HydraSoft: dependency-free Windows DLL hijack scanner with centralized remote management — HydraAgent, PHP API, and a web console for endpoint security checks a
Android code for the Proton Pass application
Feature management with GitOps for developers
Apereo PHP CAS Client
Enables organizations to create and deploy customizable AI agents with support for multiple LLM providers, real-time chat, voice, document training, analytics,
KeyPass: Open Source Project & An Offline Password Manager. Store, manage, and take control securely.
Fast, developer-friendly JS/TS dependency vulnerability scanner with local lockfile scanning, OSV matching, direct vs transitive visibility, --fix, JSON output,
WebAuthn ruby server library ― Make your Ruby/Rails web server become a conformant WebAuthn Relying Party
A free, open-source alternative to Burp Suite: an intercepting proxy and web app security testing suite with Repeater, Intruder, Collaborator and a built-in OWA
Tenzir is the data pipeline engine for security teams.
Passwall Server is the core backend infrastructure for Passwall platform
Secure secret management with public key encryption
RedTiger-Tools is a multifunction automation tool dedicated to pentesting and OSINT. The project is open source and designed to be fully configurable according
OpenID/Connect, OAuth2, WS-Federation and SAML 2.0 server based on Duende IdentityServer and ITFoxtec Identity SAML 2.0 with its admin UI
A KeePass-compatible password and secrets manager for people who work with AI agents.
Fast, minimal VPN built on modern cryptography
Repository with the scripts that I have used in my blogs on https://powershellisfun.com. If you like these, please sponsor this project using the Sponsor button
Real-time network monitor + outbound firewall — see & block every connection. Privacy-first, local-first, Rust fleet agent, SIEM exports, 8 languages. / Moniteu
Node.js library for SAML SSO
Lightweight probe monitoring — Go + VictoriaMetrics + PostgreSQL/SQLite | Real-time metrics, service checks, tamper protection & security audit
The Janssen Project is a home for open source IAM components, featuring Auth Server (OAuth/OpenID), Agama low-code identity orchestration, and the Cedarling pol
A turnkey OAuth & authentication system, designed for both Cloudflare Workers and Node.js
🧹 Cleaning up images from Kubernetes nodes
Real-time fraud detection and AML compliance engine
Webauthn / passkeys helper library to make your life easier. Client side, server side and demo included.
Manage secrets with Bash and GnuPG asymmetric encryption (YubiKey)
A portable Java library for WebAuthn(Passkeys) server side verification
An RPKI Validator and RTR server written in Rust
openvpn-auth-oauth2 is a plugin/management interface client for OpenVPN server to handle an OIDC based single sign-on (SSO) auth flows
Endpoint detection for Windows, Linux, and macOS. Sigma, YARA, and IOC rules on native telemetry. Written in Rust. No cloud account required.
The Dogtag Certificate System is an enterprise-class Certificate Authority (CA) which supports all aspects of certificate lifecycle management, including key ar
Python library to interact with keepass databases (supports KDBX3 and KDBX4)
🛡⚔️AI-Powered Penetration Testing Framework with automated vulnerability scanning, multi-agent system, and compliance reporting🛡⚔️
Decentralized CAPTCHA for enhanced web security
GDPR-compliant bot protection without user friction
Secure, scalable server access management for DevOps
Type-safe feature flags and remote config for developers
Secure, scalable chat server for modern applications
Invisible bot protection that respects user privacy
Frequently asked questions
How many open source Security & Privacy tools are there?
This registry tracks 201 open source Security & Privacy projects, with 1,397,766 combined GitHub stars. The list is ranked by stars and refreshed nightly.
What is the most popular open source Security & Privacy project?
PayloadsAllTheThings leads this category with 82,290 GitHub stars, followed by Puter.
Are these Security & Privacy tools free?
Yes — every project listed here is open source. Some also offer paid hosted versions alongside the free self-hosted option; the licence for each project is shown on its card.