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calebstewart

pwncat-cs

Fancy reverse and bind shell handler
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Monthly downloads
2.2K
Weekly downloads
501
GitHub stars
2.9K

Downloads in the 30 and 7 days to October 10, 2026. Refreshed weekly.

Package Information

Latest Version
0.5.4
Requires Python
>=3.9,<4.0
Licence
MIT
Last Release
4 years ago
Author
Caleb Stewart
First Release
November 28, 2021
Total Releases
5
Python Versions
3 3.9 3.10
No reported malware or high/critical advisories · Details

The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
4
Popularity
73
Adoption
33
Community
50
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
1669 days ago
Monthly downloads
2,235
Active
Activity within 30 days
Stable
Activity within 31-180 days
Minimal
Activity within 181-365 days, or no activity data
At Risk
No activity for > 365 days, but > 10,000 monthly downloads
• Archived
Repository flagged as archived on GitHub
Repository is archived on GitHub — no further commits expected.
How the popularity category was determined
Monthly downloads
2,235
Stars
2,913
Stars per 1k downloads
1303.36
Industry Standard
> 10,000,000 monthly downloads
Hidden Gem
< 0.5 stars per 1k downloads and > 100,000 monthly downloads
• Community Favorite
> 5 stars per 1k downloads
Rising Star
Balanced ratio of stars to downloads
Unknown
Fewer than 1,000 monthly downloads, or no star data
How download momentum is calculated
Week daily avg
72
Month daily avg
74
Momentum
—
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Momentum not reported for packages with < 5,000 monthly downloads — percentages are noisy at low volume.
More insights and metrics
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.9,<4.0
Cutting Edge
Minimum supported version is 3.14 or newer
Modern
Minimum supported version is 3.11 to 3.13
• Legacy
Supports 3.10 or older (or Python 2)
Unknown
No requires_python specified or unparseable
License categories
License
MIT
• Permissive
MIT, Apache, BSD, ISC, Unlicense, CC0, etc.
Copyleft
GPL, LGPL, AGPL, MPL, EPL, etc.
Proprietary
Commercial, all rights reserved, custom EULAs
Unknown
No license specified, or none of the above match
How the release cadence was determined
Last release
1722 days ago
Total releases
5
Releases/year
1.0
Rapid
Last release within 365 days and > 12 releases/year
Regular
Last release within 365 days
Slow
Last release 366-730 days ago
• Stalled
Last release > 730 days ago, or no releases
Unknown
No usable release date available
How contributor risk was determined
Contributors
13
Monthly downloads
2,235
High Load
≤ 2 contributors and ≥ 50,000 monthly downloads
Moderate Load
< 10 contributors and ≥ 500,000 monthly downloads
Low Load
< 25 contributors and ≥ 5,000,000 monthly downloads, or sole maintainer with ≥ 10,000 monthly downloads
• Balanced
Enough contributors for the package's popularity
Unknown
No contributor data available
Engagement
59
 
Issue Burden
17.9
per 1k stars
Discussions
2.4
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
4.4%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
No
 
PR Velocity
Active
 
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.

Downloads by OS

Linux 74
Windows 3
macOS 2

Python Versions

3.14
36.7% 29
3.11
32.9% 26
3.13
15.2% 12
3.12
13.9% 11
3.10
1.3% 1

Top Countries

1. US US
36
2. EE EE
14
3. DE DE
5
4. IN IN
3
5. SG SG
3
6. FR FR
2
7. GR GR
2
8. HK HK
2
9. ID ID
2
10. SA SA
2

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

Dependencies

12
4 optional dependencies
  • enum-tools<0.8.0,>=0.7.0[docs]
    extra == "docs"
  • furo<2022.0.0,>=2021.11.23[docs]
    extra == "docs"
  • sphinx<5.0.0,>=4.0.2[docs]
    extra == "docs"
  • sphinx-toolbox<3.0.0,>=2.15.2[docs]
    extra == "docs"

Used By

0
Not used by any tracked packages

Repository details

Forks
296
Issues
52
Last Commit
4 years ago
Contributors
13
Open PRs
16
Archived
Yes

Data and sources

Tracking Since
September 26, 2026
Data Updated
October 11, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh
Keywords
offsec cyber exploitation privesc automation
Sources and methodology