No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
pwntools has 1.1M monthly downloads and 14K GitHub stars. Version 4.15.0 supports Python 2.7+, first published in 2014.
It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in Oct 2025.
It is built on top of capstone, colored-traceback and intervaltree. It is used by 52 tracked packages, including pwninit-py, autoi-mcp and evilblade.
GitHub topics include ctf, exploit and pwntools.
Package Insights
Package Risks
- No releases in 265 days despite active commits
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
100
Popularity
87
Adoption
60
Community
80
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
3 days ago
Monthly downloads
1,099,219
•
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
How the popularity category was determined
Monthly downloads
1,099,219
Stars
13,570
Stars per 1k downloads
12.35
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
31,548
Month daily avg
36,641
Momentum
-13.9%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=2.7
Cutting Edge
Minimum supported version is 3.12 or newer
Modern
Minimum supported version is 3.9, 3.10, or 3.11
•
Legacy
Supports 3.8 or older (or Python 2)
Unknown
No requires_python specified or unparseable
License categories
License
Mostly MIT, some GPL/BSD, see LICENSE-pwntools.txt
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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
268 days ago
Total releases
122
Releases/year
10.2
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
285
Monthly downloads
1,099,219
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
78
Issue Burden
7.1
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.6
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
15.4%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
265d
PR Velocity
Quiet
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
30.0K
Windows
459
macOS
275
Python Versions
3.13
61.0%
17.7K
3.12
15.5%
4.5K
3.8
10.0%
2.9K
3.11
7.5%
2.2K
3.10
6.0%
1.7K
Top Countries
1.
SG
16.5K
SG
2.
US
13.0K
US
3.
CN
2.5K
CN
4.
DK
1.2K
DK
5.
NL
417
NL
6.
DE
402
DE
7.
HK
310
HK
8.
SE
254
SE
9.
JP
217
JP
10.
IN
200
IN
Dependencies
22
- capstone >=3.0.5rc2
- colored-traceback <0.4
- intervaltree >=3.0
- mako >=1.0.0
- packaging
- paramiko >=1.15.2
- pathlib2
- pip >=6.0.8
- psutil >=3.3.0
- pyelftools <0.30,>=0.29
- pygments >=2.0
- pyserial >=2.7
- pysocks
- python-dateutil
- requests >=2.0
- ropgadget >=5.3
- rpyc
- six >=1.12.0
- sortedcontainers
- unicorn !=2.1.3,!=2.1.4,>=2.0.1
- unix-ar
- zstandard
Used By
52
- pwninit-py
- autoi-mcp
- evilblade
- vagd
- hackebds
- iotsploit-exploits
- pwnkit
- iotsploit-django
- pwn-flashlib
- loopwn
- iotsploit-cli
- pydashboard
- pwno
- gdb-plus
- badbyte
- cve-maker
- webpeek
- pwnit
- pwnshop
- ctfsolver
- libnova
- mcp-pwntools
- binsmasher
- pwntools-util
- lianpwn
- kali-driver
- pypwn
- pwnup
- code-rl
- runpythonpackagepythonplayer123
- eatshell
- kyoushi-statemachines
- pyicarus
- pwnelle
- onegadget-selector
- asm-practice
- protocrash
- iflow-mcp-yenn503-hexstrike-redteam
- iflow-mcp-rocketmadev-pwndbg-mcp
- iflow-mcp-pwno-io-pwno-mcp
- pwndbg-mcp
- easypwn
- mepwn
- pyrappel
- yaptpy
- zfnlib
- pwntools-r2
- dns-scan
- kalameet
- hexstrike-ai
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.
Package Information
License
Mostly MIT, some GPL/BSD, see LICENSE-pwntools.txt
First Release
July 27, 2014
Last Release
8 months ago
Last Commit
4 days ago
Latest Version
4.15.0
Total Releases
122
Contributors
285
Open PRs
26
Archived
No
Python Versions
2.7
3
Wheels
py2
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh