Known Vulnerability
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Security Vulnerability
PYSEC-2026-1325
Minerva timing attack on P-256 in python-ecdsa
Source: osv.dev · Flagged: 2 weeks ago
Security Vulnerability
High
GHSA-wj6h-64fc-37mp
Minerva timing attack on P-256 in python-ecdsa
Source: osv.dev · Flagged: 2 weeks ago
Monthly downloads
40.8M
Weekly downloads
10.2M
GitHub stars
974
Downloads in the 30 and 7 days to October 10, 2026. Refreshed weekly.
Package Information
Latest Version
Requires Python
!=3.0.*,!=3.1.*,!=3.2.*,!=3.3.*,!=3.4.*,!=3.5.*,>=2.6
Licence
MIT
Last Release
6 months ago
Author
Brian Warner
First Release
October 16, 2010
Total Releases
23
Python Versions
2
2.6
2.7
3
3.6
3.7
3.8
3.9
3.10
3.11
3.12
3.13
Package Insights
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
65
Popularity
67
Adoption
80
Community
75
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
130 days ago
Monthly downloads
40,823,556
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
40,823,556
Stars
974
Stars per 1k downloads
0.02
•
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
1,450,223
Month daily avg
1,360,785
Momentum
+6.6%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100More insights and metrics
Python version support tiers
requires_python
!=3.0.*,!=3.1.*,!=3.2.*,!=3.3.*,!=3.4.*,!=3.5.*,>=2.6
Cutting Edge
Minimum supported version is 3.14 or newer
Modern
Minimum supported version is 3.11 to 3.13
•
Legacy
Supports 3.10 or older (or Python 2)
Unknown
No requires_python specified or unparseable
License categories
License
MIT
•
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
204 days ago
Total releases
23
Releases/year
1.4
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
47
Monthly downloads
40,823,556
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
80
Issue Burden
16.4
per 1k stars
Discussions
8.2
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
13.7%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
73d
PR Velocity
Quiet
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
855.5K
Windows
15.8K
macOS
6.6K
Python Versions
3.12
43.9%
356.3K
3.11
27.8%
226.2K
3.13
15.9%
129.0K
3.14
6.5%
52.9K
3.10
5.9%
47.8K
Top Countries
1.
US
684.6K
US
2.
DE
30.8K
DE
3.
IN
16.6K
IN
4.
NL
14.7K
NL
5.
IE
14.0K
IE
6.
CA
13.1K
CA
7.
SG
10.8K
SG
8.
GB
9.9K
GB
9.
FR
8.6K
FR
10.
TW
6.4K
TW
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Used By
412
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- mercapi 139.1K/mo
- substrate-interface 127.6K/mo
- hdwallet 102.6K/mo
- bitcoin-utils 95.6K/mo
- bitcoinlib 81.6K/mo
- plugp100 59.0K/mo
Repository details
GitHub Topics
Data and sources
Tracking Since
September 26, 2026
Data Updated
October 11, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh