Package Health Score

79 / 100

security
Security review needed
popularity
Popular
maintenance
Healthy
community
Sustainable

Popularity

Popular

GitHub Stars: 12.52K
Forks: 1.75K
Contributors: -

Direct Usage Popularity

Based on project statistics from the GitHub repository for the PyPI package pwntools, we found that it has been starred 12,519 times.

Security

Security review needed

Security and license risk for latest version

Release Date: Mar 24, 2025
Direct Vulnerabilities: 0
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Indirect Vulnerabilities: 0
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License Risk: 0
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License

(BSD-2-Clause OR GPL-3.0)

Security Policy

Yes

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Maintenance

Healthy

Commit Frequency

Open Issues: 101
Open PR: 19
Last Release: 26 days ago
Last Commit: 7 days ago

Further analysis of the maintenance status of pwntools based on released PyPI versions cadence, the repository activity, and other data points determined that its maintenance is Healthy.

We found that pwntools demonstrates a positive version release cadence with at least one new version released in the past 3 months.

As a healthy sign for on-going project maintenance, we found that the GitHub repository had at least 1 pull request or issue interacted with by the community.

Community

Sustainable

Readme: Yes
Contributing.md: Yes
Code of Conduct: No
Contributors: 0
Funding: No

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Package

Python Versions Compatibility: >=2.7

Age: 11 years
Latest Release: 26 days ago
Dependencies: 6 Direct / 34 Total
Versions: 121
Maintainers: 6
Wheels: OS Independent

Readme

pwntools - CTF toolkit

pwntools logo

Pwntools is a CTF framework and exploit development library. Written in Python, it is designed for rapid prototyping and development, and intended to make exploit writing as simple as possible.

from pwn import *
context(arch = 'i386', os = 'linux')

r = remote('exploitme.example.com', 31337)
# EXPLOIT CODE GOES HERE
r.send(asm(shellcraft.sh()))
r.interactive()

Documentation

Our documentation is available at docs.pwntools.com

A series of tutorials is also available online

To get you started, we've provided some example solutions for past CTF challenges in our write-ups repository.

Installation

Pwntools is best supported on 64-bit Ubuntu LTS releases (14.04, 16.04, 18.04, and 20.04). Most functionality should work on any Posix-like distribution (Debian, Arch, FreeBSD, OSX, etc.).

Python3 is suggested, but Pwntools still works with Python 2.7. Most of the functionality of pwntools is self-contained and Python-only. You should be able to get running quickly with

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install python3 python3-pip python3-dev git libssl-dev libffi-dev build-essential
python3 -m pip install --upgrade pip
python3 -m pip install --upgrade pwntools

However, some of the features (assembling/disassembling foreign architectures) require non-Python dependencies. For more information, see the complete installation instructions here.

Contribution

See CONTRIBUTING.md

Contact and Community

If you have any questions not worthy of a bug report, join the Discord server at https://discord.gg/96VA2zvjCB

pwntools dependencies

packaging pysocks python-dateutil rpyc sortedcontainers zstandard

FAQs

What is pwntools?

Pwntools CTF framework and exploit development library. Visit Snyk Advisor to see a full health score report for pwntools, including popularity, security, maintenance & community analysis.

Is pwntools popular?

The python package pwntools receives a total of 23,635 weekly downloads. As such, pwntools popularity was classified as a popular. Visit the popularity section on Snyk Advisor to see the full health analysis.

Is pwntools well maintained?

We found that pwntools demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity. It has a community of 0 open source contributors collaborating on the project. See the full package health analysis to learn more about the package maintenance status.

Is pwntools safe to use?

While scanning the latest version of pwntools, we found that a security review is needed. A total of 0 vulnerabilities or license issues were detected. See the full security scan results.

Last updated on 19 April-2025, at 02:29 (UTC).

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