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Active Directory Certificate Services enumeration and abuse

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Certipy - AD CS Attack & Enumeration Toolkit

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Certipy is a powerful offensive and defensive toolkit for enumerating and abusing Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS). It helps red teamers, penetration testers, and defenders assess AD CS misconfigurations — including full support for identifying and exploiting all known ESC1–ESC16 attack paths.

[!WARNING] Use only in environments where you have explicit authorization. Unauthorized use may be illegal.


🔍 Features

  • 🔎 Discover Certificate Authorities and Templates
  • 🚩 Identify misconfigurations
  • 🔐 Request and forge certificates
  • 🎭 Perform authentication using certificates
  • 📡 Relay NTLM authentication to AD CS HTTP(S)/RPC endpoints
  • 🗝️ Support for Shadow Credentials, Golden Certificates, and Certificate Mapping Attacks
  • 🧰 And much more!

📚 Full Wiki & Documentation

Read the full step-by-step usage guide, including installation, vulnerability explanations, examples, and mitigations in the 📘 Certipy Wiki.


⚙️ Installation

See the Installation Guide for instructions on how to install Certipy.


🚀 Quick Start

See the Quick Start Guide for a quick overview of the most common commands and usage examples.


🎯 Supported AD CS Vulnerabilities

Certipy supports detection and exploitation of AD CS vulnerabilities across the full range of ESC1–ESC16.

For detailed explanations and exploitation steps, refer to the Certipy Wiki.


📎 Resources

See the Resources for selection of key resources related to AD CS security.


🤝 Contributing

Contributions are welcome! See CONTRIBUTING.md for guidelines on reporting issues, improving documentation, or submitting pull requests.


🌟 Sponsors

Thanks to these generous sponsors for supporting the development of this project. Your contributions help sustain ongoing work and improvements.

User avatar: Henri SaloUser avatar: mxrch

👤 Author

Developed by @ly4k, with valuable contributions from the community.


📘 Wiki

📖 Visit the Certipy Wiki for detailed documentation, usage examples, ESC vulnerability breakdowns, and mitigation advice.

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