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PEASS-ng

Privilege Escalation Awesome Scripts (linpeas and winpeas) for finding local privesc paths.

PEASS-ng - Privilege Escalation Awesome Scripts SUITE new generation

Linux Privesc official course to master LinPEAS

Check https://hacktricks-training.com/courses/lhe/ to learn tens of linux privesc techniques and master LinPEAS

Basic Tutorial

Tutorial

Here you will find privilege escalation tools for Windows and Linux/Unix* and MacOS.

These tools search for possible local privilege escalation paths that you could exploit and print them to you with nice colors so you can recognize the misconfigurations easily.

  • Check the Local Windows Privilege Escalation checklist from book.hacktricks.wiki

  • WinPEAS - Windows local Privilege Escalation Awesome Script (C#.exe and .bat)

  • Check the Local Linux Privilege Escalation checklist from book.hacktricks.wiki

  • LinPEAS - Linux local Privilege Escalation Awesome Script (.sh)

Quick Start

Find the latest versions of all the scripts and binaries in the releases page.

JSON, HTML & PDF output

Check the parsers directory to transform PEASS outputs to JSON, HTML and PDF

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If you are a PEASS & Hacktricks enthusiast, you can get your hands now on our custom swag and show how much you like our projects!

You can also, join the πŸ’¬ Discord group or the telegram group to learn about the latest news in cybersecurity and meet other cybersecurity enthusiasts, or follow me on Twitter 🐦 @hacktricks_live.

Let's improve PEASS together

If you want to add something and have any cool idea related to this project, please let me know it in the telegram group https://t.me/peass or contribute reading the CONTRIBUTING.md file.

Advisory

All the scripts/binaries of the PEAS suite should be used for authorized penetration testing and/or educational purposes only. Any misuse of this software will not be the responsibility of the author or of any other collaborator. Use it at your own machines and/or with the owner's permission.

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