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Top 23 Rust security-tool Projects
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Project mention: GitHub is investigating unauthorized access to their internal repositories | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-05-19
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matano
Open source security data lake for threat hunting, detection & response, and cybersecurity analytics at petabyte scale on AWS
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moonwalk
Cover your tracks during Linux Exploitation by leaving zero traces on system logs and filesystem timestamps. (by mufeedvh)
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pdfrip
A multi-threaded PDF password cracking utility equipped with commonly encountered password format builders and dictionary attacks.
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cherrybomb
Stop half-done APIs! Cherrybomb is a CLI tool that helps you avoid undefined user behaviour by auditing your API specifications, validating them and running API security tests.
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DataSurgeon
Quickly Extracts IP's, Email Addresses, Hashes, Files, Credit Cards, Social Security Numbers and a lot More From Text
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fim
FIM is an Open Source Host-based file integrity monitoring tool that performs file system analysis, file integrity checking, real time alerting and provides Audit daemon data.
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rustinel
Open-source endpoint detection engine for Windows and Linux using ETW, eBPF, Sigma, YARA, IOCs, and ECS NDJSON alerts.
Project mention: Open-source endpoint detection engine for Windows and Linux | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-05-11 -
huginn-net
Multi-protocol passive fingerprinting library: TCP/HTTP (p0f-style) + TLS (JA4-style) analysis in Rust
Project mention: Huginn Net – Multi-Protocol Passive Fingerprinting (P0f-Style) | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-05-17 -
narsil-mcp
Rust MCP server for comprehensive code intelligence - 90 tools, 32 languages, security scanning, call graphs, and more
Project mention: Narsil-MCP: a Rust-powered MCP server with 76 tools for deep code intelligence | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-12-24 -
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mcp-reticle
Reticle intercepts, visualizes, and profiles JSON-RPC traffic between your LLM and MCP servers in real-time, with zero latency overhead. Stop debugging blind. Start seeing everything.
Project mention: Debugging MCP Tool Calls Sucks: Reticle Is “Wireshark for MCP” | dev.to | 2026-01-06 -
qos
QuorumOS is a computation layer for running applications inside Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) (by tkhq)
NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
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Show HN: Zizmor, static analysis for GitHub Actions
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Zizmor: Static analysis tool for GitHub Actions
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Index
What are some of the best open-source security-tool projects in Rust? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
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| 1 | RustScan | 20,114 |
| 2 | zizmor | 5,867 |
| 3 | black-hat-rust | 4,365 |
| 4 | matano | 1,681 |
| 5 | moonwalk | 1,486 |
| 6 | pdfrip | 1,387 |
| 7 | cherrybomb | 1,232 |
| 8 | DataSurgeon | 900 |
| 9 | cargo-auditable | 836 |
| 10 | ppfuzz | 669 |
| 11 | novops | 472 |
| 12 | rebuilderd | 428 |
| 13 | pyscan | 251 |
| 14 | shellclear | 228 |
| 15 | fim | 195 |
| 16 | rustinel | 179 |
| 17 | huginn-net | 177 |
| 18 | narsil-mcp | 172 |
| 19 | Pgen | 143 |
| 20 | kepler | 141 |
| 21 | twistrs | 134 |
| 22 | mcp-reticle | 114 |
| 23 | qos | 116 |
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