No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
defusedcsv has 1.9M monthly downloads and 27 GitHub stars. Version 3.0.0, first published in 2017.
It is minimally maintained under a permissive license, last released in Sep 2025.
It is used by 9 tracked packages, including pretix, rdmo and pretalx.
Package Insights
Package Risks
- High bus factor: only 2 contributor(s) for this download volume
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
30
Popularity
26
Adoption
60
Community
10
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
306 days ago
Monthly downloads
1,948,891
Active
Activity within 30 days
Stable
Activity within 31-180 days
•
Minimal
Activity within 181-365 days, or no activity data
At Risk
No activity for > 365 days, but > 10,000 monthly downloads
Archived
Repository flagged as archived on GitHub
How the popularity category was determined
Monthly downloads
1,948,891
Stars
27
Stars per 1k downloads
0.01
Industry Standard
> 10,000,000 monthly downloads
•
Hidden Gem
< 0.5 stars per 1k downloads and > 100,000 monthly downloads
Community Favorite
> 5 stars per 1k downloads
Rising Star
Balanced ratio of stars to downloads
Unknown
Fewer than 1,000 monthly downloads, or no star data
How download momentum is calculated
Week daily avg
47,366
Month daily avg
64,963
Momentum
-27.1%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
Not specified
Cutting Edge
Minimum supported version is 3.12 or newer
Modern
Minimum supported version is 3.9, 3.10, or 3.11
Legacy
Supports 3.8 or older (or Python 2)
•
Unknown
No requires_python specified or unparseable
Package does not declare a minimum Python version.
License categories
License
Apache License 2.0
•
Permissive
MIT, Apache, BSD, ISC, Unlicense, CC0, etc.
Copyleft
GPL, LGPL, AGPL, MPL, EPL, etc.
Proprietary
Commercial, all rights reserved, custom EULAs
Unknown
No license specified, or none of the above match
How the release cadence was determined
Last release
307 days ago
Total releases
5
Releases/year
0.6
Rapid
Last release within 365 days and > 12 releases/year
•
Regular
Last release within 365 days
Slow
Last release 366-730 days ago
Stalled
Last release > 730 days ago, or no releases
Unknown
No usable release date available
How contributor risk was determined
Contributors
2
Monthly downloads
1,948,891
•
High Load
≤ 2 contributors and ≥ 50,000 monthly downloads
Moderate Load
< 10 contributors and ≥ 500,000 monthly downloads
Low Load
< 25 contributors and ≥ 5,000,000 monthly downloads, or sole maintainer with ≥ 10,000 monthly downloads
Balanced
Enough contributors for the package's popularity
Unknown
No contributor data available
Engagement
19
Issue Burden
-
per 1k stars
Discussions
-
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
66.7%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
No
PR Velocity
Quiet
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
5.9K
Windows
103
macOS
43
Python Versions
3.11
48.5%
2.9K
3.12
23.5%
1.4K
3.14
16.8%
993
3.13
8.7%
512
3.10
2.6%
152
Top Countries
1.
US
3.1K
US
2.
IE
2.3K
IE
3.
IN
161
IN
4.
DE
94
DE
5.
CA
54
CA
6.
GB
49
GB
7.
CN
42
CN
8.
SG
37
SG
9.
NL
28
NL
10.
FR
26
FR
Dependencies
0
No dependencies
Package Information
License
Apache License 2.0
First Release
August 7, 2017
Last Release
10 months ago
Last Commit
10 months ago
Latest Version
3.0.0
Total Releases
5
Contributors
2
Open PRs
0
Archived
No
Author
Raphael Michel
Python Versions
3.9
3.10
3.11
3.12
3.13
Wheels
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh