Open source pentesting projects
Every project in the registry tagged pentesting, ranked by real GitHub adoption.
Shannon is an AI pentester for web applications and APIs. It analyzes your source code, identifies attack vectors, and executes real exploits to prove vulnerabi
🕵️♂️ Collect a dossier on a person by username from 3000+ sites
Test your prompts, agents, and RAGs. Red teaming/pentesting/vulnerability scanning for AI. Compare performance of GPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek, and more. Simpl
reNgine is an automated reconnaissance framework for web applications with a focus on highly configurable streamlined recon process via Engines, recon data corr
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
Gather and update all available and newest CVEs with their PoC.
Next generation web scanner
A Modern Orchestration Engine for Security
Automated Penetration Testing Framework - Open-Source Vulnerability Scanner - Vulnerability Management
Cameradar hacks its way into RTSP videosurveillance cameras
A AI general-purpose state-space search engine, validated first on autonomous penetration testing.
💀 Generate malicious PDF test files for testing phone-home callbacks, SSRF, XSS, NTLM credential theft, and data exfiltration in PDF viewers, converters, and w
Applied offensive security with Rust - https://kerkour.com/black-hat-rust
A high performance offensive security tool for reconnaissance and vulnerability scanning
Take a list of domains, crawl urls and scan for endpoints, secrets, api keys, file extensions, tokens and more
All In One Web Recon
Semi-automatic OSINT framework and package manager
Tool that monitors, analyzes and limits the bandwidth of devices on the local network without administrative access
802.11 Attack Tool
OSINT Tool: Generate username lists for companies on LinkedIn
Automatic SSTI detection tool with interactive interface
GooFuzz is a tool to perform fuzzing with an OSINT approach, managing to enumerate directories, files, subdomains or parameters without leaving evidence on the
🛡️ Free open-source AI-powered security terminal & vulnerability scanner (CVE, SBOM). Supports SSH, SFTP, RDP, VNC, Serial, and 12+ autonomous AI agents (DeepS
Information Gathering tool - DNS / Subdomains / Ports / Directories enumeration
A modular vulnerability scanner with automatic report generation capabilities.
OWASP Web Recon & Directory Discovery Platform
Reconmap is a collaboration-first security operations platform for infosec teams and MSSPs, enabling end‑to‑end engagement management, from reconnaissance throu
Dradis Framework: Collaboration and reporting for IT Security teams
Pen Test Report Generation and Assessment Collaboration
VULNRΞPO - Free vulnerability report generator and repository, end-to-end encrypted! Templates of issues, CWE,CVE,MITRE ATT&CK,PCI DSS, import Nmap/Nessus/Burp/
🛡⚔️AI-Powered Penetration Testing Framework with automated vulnerability scanning, multi-agent system, and compliance reporting🛡⚔️
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Frequently asked questions
How many open source pentesting projects are there?
This registry tracks 31 projects tagged pentesting, with 212,155 GitHub stars between them. The most-adopted is shannon at 50,964 stars.
Are these pentesting projects free to use?
Yes — 31 of the 31 carry an explicit open-source licence across 7 distinct licences, so there is no licence fee. Where a project also sells a hosted or enterprise version, the self-hosted path remains free.
Which pentesting project should I choose?
The list above is ranked by GitHub stars, but stars measure attention rather than fit. Check three things on each card: the licence (permissive versus copyleft), the language it is written in, and the last-push date — a high-star project that has not been pushed in a year is a liability.
Are these pentesting projects still maintained?
25 of the 31 were pushed in the last 90 days, and every card shows its exact last-push date so you can see the rest. Sort your shortlist by that date before committing to a migration.