A fast, dedicated VNC authentication bruteforcing tool, written in Go
Warning
Use ViNCe only on networks and systems for which you have explicit permission. I am not liable for any misuse or malicious activities carried out using ViNCe.
Head over to the latest release, then download & extract the binary for your respective platform. Prebuilt binaries are published automatically with each release for various systems and architectures.
You can also install or update Vince with Go's built-in go install, granted you have a recent version of Go installed, and ~/go/bin is accessible from PATH:
go install -v github.com/chadhyatt/vince@latestViNCe v0.2.1 MIT License | Copyright (c) 2025 Chad Hyatt <[email protected]> https://github.com/chadhyatt/vince INFO Provide VNC server address and port with the `-a` flag (e.g. "192.168.0.134", "10.13.33.37:5901") See further usage below USAGE: vince [OPTION]... -a string Target VNC server [address:port], port defaults to 5900 -auth string (Planned) Force use of a specific authentication type [vnc, tight] (default "vnc") -chars string If -m raw, the character set used for permutations (default "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ1234567890!@#$%^&*()?><:'\"") -conn string Use connection type [tcp, udp] (default "tcp") -delay float Delay between connections per worker thread -m string Mode of bruteforce [wordlist, raw], defaults to wordlist -novnc Specifies that the host is a noVNC server, and to connect over WebSocket -novnc-ssl If -novnc, connects to the noVNC server over SSL (cert is ignored) -novnc-ua string If -novnc, a specific User-Agent header to use with requests -novnc-websockify-path string If -novnc, the noVNC Websockify path to connect over (default "/websockify") -packet-log Enables packet dump logging for debug (only use with one thread) -proxies string Path to list of SOCKS(4/5) proxies to use for workers. File must be a list of proxies in the format "scheme://[username:pass@]host[:port]", delimited by newlines -range string If -m raw, min/max number range for password combination length. May be either a single number, or 2 numbers in the format "1-6" (default "1-4") -retries int Number of retry attempts per password for failed connections. -1 means infinite retries (default -1) -start uint Start at index n in password iteration -t int Number of worker threads (default 1) -w string If -m wordlist, path to the wordlist file to source from MIT License Copyright (c) 2025 Chad Hyatt <[email protected]> Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.