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checksec.py

Checksec tool in Python, Rich output, based on LIEF

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Overview

A simple tool to verify the security properties of your binaries.

These properties can be enabled by your compiler to enforce the security of your executables, and mitigate exploits. However it can be challenging to apply them on a whole system.

Check the level of security your Linux distro / Windows release is providing you !

Supported formats:

  • ELF
  • PE
  • Mach-O

Based on:

  • Rich: Beautiful terminal output formatting
  • LIEF: Cross-platform library to parse, modify and abstract ELF, PE and Mach-O formats

Requirements

Setup

Windows

You find the checksec.exe on the latest Github releases:

Linux

python3 -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate
(venv) pip install checksec.py

Usage

(venv) checksec <file_or_directory>...

Check --help for more options (JSON output, recursive walk, workers count)

FAQ

1️⃣ What's the difference between checksec.py and checksec.sh ?

checksec.py checksec.sh
Cross-Platform support
Distributed workload
Scan file
Scan directory
Scan directory recursively
Specify libc path
Scan process
Scan process libs
Scan kernel config
Output Cli
Output JSON
Output CSV
Output XML
ELF: Relro
ELF: Canary
ELF: NX
ELF: PIE
ELF: RPATH
ELF: RUNPATH
ELF: Symbols
ELF: Fortify
ELF: Fortified
ELF: Fortifable
ELF: Fortify Score

2️⃣ What's the difference between checksec.py and winchecksec ?

checksec.py winchecksec
Cross-Platform support
Distributed workload
Scan file
Scan directory
Scan directory recursively
Output CLI
Output JSON
PE: ASLR - DYNAMIC_BASE
PE: ASLR - HIGHENTROPYVA
PE: INTEGRITYCHECK
PE: Authenticode signed
PE: DEP
PE: Manifest Isolation
PE: SEH
PE: SafeSEH
PE: Control Flow Guard
PE: Return Flow Guard
PE: Stack Cookie

3️⃣ checksec is slow on some huge binaries ! What's happening ?!

checksec.py relies on the LIEF library to parse PE/ELF/MachO formats.

➡️The library doesn't offer at this point on-demand parsing, so it will parse and fetch unnecessary data.

➡️Retrieving symbols can be slow (ex: pandoc, 118M, +300 000 symbols, +2m 20sec). See this issue

4️⃣ I sent a CTRL-C to cancel checksec.py processing, the app doesn't want to quit

checksec.py is working with multiple process workers to parallelize its execution and binary processing. When a CRTL-C is received, checksec.py will wait for them to stop.

Sometimes, this is not working, and I don't know why at this point. You can kill the remaining Python workers afterwards.

References

License

License: GPL v3

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