carlospolop/PEASS-ng

PEASS - Privilege Escalation Awesome Scripts SUITE (with colors)

C#

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updated Sep 27, 2026

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README

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

Join us!

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 💬 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.

bash
batch
batch-script
color
csharp
enumeration
exe
linpe
linpeas
linux
one-liner
oneliner
peas
privesc
script
shell
unix
windows
winpeas

Contributors

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carlospolop

1,564 commits

makikvues

107 commits

RandolphConley

19 commits

carlospolop/PEASS-ng

PEASS - Privilege Escalation Awesome Scripts SUITE (with colors)

C#

20,583

1,892 commits

updated Sep 27, 2026

See the code

README

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

Join us!

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 💬 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.

bash
batch
batch-script
color
csharp
enumeration
exe
linpe
linpeas
linux
one-liner
oneliner
peas
privesc
script
shell
unix
windows
winpeas

Contributors

(top 30 of 119)

carlospolop

1,564 commits

makikvues

107 commits

RandolphConley

19 commits

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