exploiting-aws-with-pacu
72 / 100 · Review before installing
Check before installing. Some of what it can do is expected: a security skill usually runs scanners and checks websites.
Runs the Pacu AWS exploitation framework end-to-end — session and credential setup, IAM enumeration, automated privilege-escalation scanning via iam__privesc_scan, and persistence/backdooring modules like iam__backdoor_users_keys. Use for authorized AWS penetration tests or red-team engagements, assessing blast radius from a compromised IAM credential, or generating attacker telemetry for purple-team detection testing.
What this skill can do
Downloads and installs other software
Runs commands on your computer
Changes files outside its own folder
Safer alternatives
- 97 Low riskaws-pacu-privesc
- 95 Low riskexploiting-active-directory-certificate-services-esc1
- 92 Low riskexploiting-ipv6-vulnerabilities
Install
Paste this into your terminal. It downloads exactly the version we scanned, not whatever is newest.
if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'exploiting-aws-with-pacu' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'exploiting-aws-with-pacu' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named exploiting-aws-with-pacu already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/mukul975/Anthropic-Cybersecurity-Skills' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet '54a798831d2266a3ca61ce68a7acb80b81160d57' -- 'skills/exploiting-aws-with-pacu' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'skills/exploiting-aws-with-pacu' ~/.agents/skills/'exploiting-aws-with-pacu' && rm -rf "$d"; fi
Codex reads ~/.agents/skills directly. For Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Antigravity or OpenCode, also link it. For Claude Code: ln -s ~/.agents/skills/'exploiting-aws-with-pacu' ~/.claude/skills/'exploiting-aws-with-pacu' (other agents: ~/.cursor/skills, ~/.copilot/skills, ~/.gemini/skills, ~/.gemini/config/skills, ~/.config/opencode/skills). Or install through the finder skill, which does both.
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Score history
| Date | Version | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-08 | 54a7988 | 72 |
| 2026-11-07 | 54a7988 | 72 |