peass-ng / PEASS-ng
PEASS - Privilege Escalation Awesome Scripts SUITE (with colors)
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Repository Summary (README)
PreviewPEASS-ng - Privilege Escalation Awesome Scripts SUITE new generation

Basic 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.
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Check the Local Windows Privilege Escalation checklist from book.hacktricks.wiki
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WinPEAS - Windows local Privilege Escalation Awesome Script (C#.exe and .bat)
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Check the Local Linux Privilege Escalation checklist from book.hacktricks.wiki
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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
Join us!
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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.
