Project Summary
Aircrack-ng is a complete suite of tools to assess WiFi network security.
It focuses on different areas of WiFi security:
- Monitoring: Packet capture and export of data to text files for further processing by third party tools
- Attacking: Replay attacks, deauthentication, fake access points and others via packet injection
- Testing: Checking WiFi cards and driver capabilities (capture and injection)
- Cracking: WEP and WPA PSK (WPA 1 and 2)
All tools are command line which allows for heavy scripting. A lot of GUIs have taken advantage of this feature. It works primarily Linux but also Windows, OS X, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, as well as Solaris and even eComStation 2.
In a Nutshell, Aircrack-NG...
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has a well established, mature codebase
maintained by a small development team
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took an estimated 22 years of effort (COCOMO model)
starting with its first commit in December, 2006
ending with its most recent commit 3 months ago
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Repository URL: https://github.com/aircrack-ng/aircrack-ng
Version: 115693aa2abf44616ed0272f8d450baa8793756c
- 2026-06-22
- Last Analyzed
- 141,858
- Lines of Code Analyze
- 0.3
- Defect Density
Defects by status for current build
- 317
- Total defects
- 43
- Outstanding
- 266
- Fixed
CWE Top 25 defects
| ID | CWE-Name | Number of Defects |
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| 190 | Integer Overflow or Wraparound | 12 |