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Reverse Engineering Good First Issues

Open issues about Reverse Engineering from GitHub projects in every language. The list opens on the ones we rated beginner-friendly, and the subject's other names are matched too.

Reverse Engineering

Open issues
13.2k
New this week
213
Nobody on it yet
12.4k
Average difficulty
4.0/5

What this list is like

  • Average annotated difficulty: 4.0/5 across 15,099 issues.
  • 7% of 15,099 time estimates are one day or less.

Updated Nov 15, 2026.

About Reverse Engineering

Reverse engineering works out how compiled software or file formats work without their source. Tools here include disassemblers, debuggers, decompilers and binary analysis frameworks.

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How many Reverse Engineering issues are open here?
13,196 open issues: 213 opened in the last seven days, and 12,430 with nobody working on them yet. We count them once a day.
Where do I start?
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