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PEASS - Privilege Escalation Awesome Scripts SUITE (with colors)

From peass-ng·Updated June 13, 2026·View on GitHub·

**Check to learn tens of linux privesc techniques and master LinPEAS** The project is written primarily in C#, distributed under the Other license, first published in 2019. It has gained significant community traction with 19,988 stars and 3,366 forks on GitHub. Key topics include: bash, batch, batch-script, color, csharp.

Latest release: 20260604-085abf96Release refs/heads/master 20260604-085abf96
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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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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.

Contributors

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