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fluxion

v6.32 open-source

Fluxion is a security auditing and social-engineering research tool that retrieves WPAWPAA Wi-Fi authentication and encryption standard maintained by the Wi-Fi Alliance, replacing WEP; cyber tools target it to audit wireless network credentials and key exchange handshakes./WPA2 keys from access points via phishing attacks.

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Summary

fluxion is an open-source command-line tool for auditing WPA/WPA2 wireless networks through social engineering rather than brute-force cracking, and it costs nothing to use. It runs as a shell script on Kali or BlackArch, walking an operator through scanning for a target network, capturing a handshake with its Handshake Snooper attack, then launching a Captive Portal that spins up a rogue access point, a DNS server, and a jammer to deauthenticate clients and lure them into typing the WPA key into a fake login page. Setup is mostly manual, with an experimental auto-mode for some steps, which suits penetration testers and red teamers running client-authorized phishing exercises rather than anyone wanting a passive scanner. It descends from linset, aiming to fix that tool's bugs and extend it, and with 91 contributors, 112 commits in the past year and a release 31 days ago, it remains actively maintained.

Fluxion is a security auditing and social-engineering research tool that retrieves WPA/WPA2 keys from access points via phishing attacks.

How fluxion helps

Which access point in range is worth targeting for a credential-phishing test?

scans for nearby wireless networks and lists them so the operator can pick a live target before launching an attack

Can a captured handshake actually verify the password a client types into the fake login page?

the Handshake Snooper attack captures the real WPA/WPA2 handshake first, so the Captive Portal can check submitted keys against it before the exercise ends

Will clients actually connect to the rogue access point instead of the real one?

the built-in jammer deauthenticates clients from the original AP while a cloned rogue AP with matching identity sits nearby to draw them in

What will the client see when they land on the rogue network?

a spawned web server serves a fake login page prompting for the WPA/WPA2 key, with DNS redirecting all client requests to that page

Which devices connected to the rogue AP and what did they request?

the DHCP backend hands out leases and records client IP, MAC, and hostname in its lease file, giving a record of who joined during the exercise

Languages

German Release notes: German German added in v6.31 (Jul 21, 2026)

Score card

  1. Shipping velocity releases a month, last 12 months
  2. Documentation quality release-notes rubric, 0–100
  3. Breaking-change discipline how rarely a release breaks users, and notice given
  4. Maintenance risk quiet time against its own cadence, maintainers
  5. Innovation & surface new capabilities, API and MCP surface
  6. Community health
  7. Contributor trend distinct committers, this year against last
  8. Maintainer concentration bus factor now against a year ago
  9. Issue backlog trend issues closed per issue opened, 12 months
  10. Responsiveness median time to a maintainer’s first reply

Nine scores for fluxion, each built from the releases, notes and API history this site tracks — and, on Researcher and Business, where it stands among every measured tool in its category and how that has moved.

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  • Documentation quality — the release-notes rubric published on the analytics page, unchanged.
  • Breaking-change discipline — the share of releases carrying a breaking change (none scores 100, half or more scores 0). Only projects that label breaking changes are measured: a clean record cannot be told from an unlabelled one.
  • Maintenance risk — quiet time measured against the tool's own release cadence (quiet longer than 90 days and three typical gaps scores 0), plus the number of active maintainers and whether contributors are growing, where known. Higher is lower risk.
  • Innovation & surface — new capabilities in the feature ledger this year, API and MCP operations added, and the share of commits that are features: the mean of whichever we hold.
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Releases

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  1. September 20261
  3. May 20181
  5. December 20171
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    1. v6.32 Sep 11, 2026 · issue 071

      Fluxion v6.32 replaces isc-dhcp-server with kea-dhcp4 as the Captive Portal DHCP backend⁠︀︄︇︀︅︉︀︅︀︀︃︀︀︅︅︀︅︊︀︄︆︀︃︄⁠

      └──▷ GET THIS VERSION 
      $ git clone --branch v6.32 https://github.com/FluxionNetwork/fluxion.git
# already have the repo? check out this version:
$ git checkout v6.32
      • Switches the Captive Portal attack's DHCP backend from isc-dhcp-server (dhcpd) to kea-dhcp4, with JSON-based config generation and AppArmorAppArmorA Linux kernel security module, maintained as part of the kernel, that confines programs to a declared set of files, capabilities, and network access — letting cyber tools sandbox processes without writing custom kernel code. local override handling for the kea-dhcp4 profile.⁠︀︄︇︀︅︉︀︅︀︀︃︀︀︅︅︀︅︊︀︄︆︀︃︄⁠
      • Relocates the DHCP lease file to /var/lib/kea/kea-leases4.csv and reworks client IP/MAC/hostname lookup against kea's CSV lease format.
      • Switches the Captive Portal attack's DHCP backend from isc-dhcp-server (dhcpd) to kea-dhcp4, with JSON-based config generation and AppArmorAppArmorA Linux kernel security module, maintained as part of the kernel, that confines programs to a declared set of files, capabilities, and network access — letting cyber tools sandbox processes without writing custom kernel code. local override handling for the kea-dhcp4 profile.⁠︀︄︇︀︅︉︀︅︀︀︃︀︀︅︅︀︅︊︀︄︆︀︃︄⁠

      1 more in Everything

      └──▷ BREAKING ON UPGRADE
      • !The DHCP backend for the Captive Portal attack is replaced by kea-dhcp4; systems relying on isc-dhcp-server (dhcpd) will need kea-dhcp4 installed and its AppArmor profile configured.
      • !The DHCP lease file has moved to /var/lib/kea/kea-leases4.csv; any tooling or scripts that read the old dhcpd lease file path will no longer find client lease data there.
    2. v4.10 May 12, 2018 · release notes

      Fluxion v4.10 adds universal services for network targeting/resumption and custom CLI params

      └──▷ GET THIS VERSION 
      $ git clone --branch v4.10 https://github.com/FluxionNetwork/fluxion.git
# already have the repo? check out this version:
$ git checkout v4.10
      • Added universal service modules: network interface management, network targeting, hash-checking, wireless target tracking, and resumable-attack.
      • Added support for command line interface parameters to control tool behavior.
      • Added support for custom user preferences configuration.
      • Added cow_patty as an optional handshake verifier option.

      4 details in Everything

    3. v3.10 Dec 27, 2017 · release notes

      Fluxion v3.10 adds 5GHz scanning, SSLSSLA cryptographic protocol for encrypting network connections, now deprecated in favor of TLS but whose name persists colloquially. Cyber tools reference it when handling HTTPS or other encrypted-channel inspection and termination./CLI options to Captive Portal and Handshake Snooper, plus ESSID support.

      └──▷ GET THIS VERSION 
      $ git clone --branch v3.10 https://github.com/FluxionNetwork/fluxion.git
# already have the repo? check out this version:
$ git checkout v3.10
      • Adds --ssl flag to enable optional SSL for the Captive Portal attack web server
      • Adds captive detection option to the Captive Portal attack
      • Displays access logs in the Captive Portal attack UI
      • Adds basic 5GHz scanning support
      • Adds synchronicity options for the Handshake Snooper attack
      +3 more show less
      • Adds check interval configuration for the Handshake Snooper attack
      • Enhances Handshake Snooper with detailed feedback logs
      • Supports non-ASCII characters in ESSIDs

      8 details in Everything

    4. 3.4 Oct 28, 2017 · release notes

      Fluxion 3.4 adds --handshake interface and --custom-sites support for user-provided attack sites.

      └──▷ GET THIS VERSION 
      $ git clone --branch 3.4 https://github.com/FluxionNetwork/fluxion.git
# already have the repo? check out this version:
$ git checkout 3.4
      └──▷ USE IT
      Capture a WPA2 handshake manually before attempting to crack it.
      shell 
      ./fluxion.sh --handshake
      Deploy a custom phishing page from a local directory during an assessment.
      shell 
      ./fluxion.sh --custom-sites /home/user/my-phish-page/
      • Adds --handshake flag to initiate the WPAWPAA Wi-Fi authentication and encryption standard maintained by the Wi-Fi Alliance, replacing WEP; cyber tools target it to audit wireless network credentials and key exchange handshakes. handshake capture phase explicitly.
      • Adds --custom-sites flag to allow loading local HTML/CSS/JS files as fake AP portals instead of bundled ones.

      2 details in Everything

    Project health

    Issue, contributor and maintainer activity in FluxionNetwork/fluxion, 2023-10 – 2026-09, as of 2026-09-25. Twelve-month figures first; the trend lines run the whole window.

    1. Contributors 4 +4 vs prior 12 months
    2. Maintainers 1 +1 joined · −0 left, last 12 months
    3. Bus factor 1 committers behind half the commits
    4. Community-filed 100% of issues opened, last 12 months
    5. Median time to close 2.9 years first maintainer reply 19 hours
    6. Open backlog 4 of 1,033 issues ever filed
    1. Issues opened / month 2 · 0 communitymaintainers
    2. Open backlog 4
    3. Contributors / month 1
    4. Commits / month 7
    5. Stars 5,930
    Issue themes, last 12 months
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