Known Vulnerability
The current version has a known security vulnerability. Review the advisory and consider upgrading.
Security Vulnerability
PYSEC-2026-356
imgaug contains an insecure deserialization vulnerability in BackgroundAugmenter class within multicore.py module
Source: osv.dev · Flagged: 1 week ago
Security Vulnerability
Critical
GHSA-g82g-j283-hj97
imgaug contains an insecure deserialization vulnerability in BackgroundAugmenter class within multicore.py module
Source: osv.dev · Flagged: 1 month ago
imgaug has 957K monthly downloads and 15K GitHub stars. Version 0.4.0, first published in 2017.
It is showing limited recent maintenance under a permissive license, last released in Feb 2020.
It is built on top of imageio, matplotlib and numpy. It is used by 78 tracked packages, including keras-ocr, deeplabcut and vietocr.
GitHub topics include image-augmentation, machine-learning and augmentation.
Package Insights
Package Risks
- No releases in 116 days despite active commits
- High downloads but no recent maintenance activity
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
30
Popularity
88
Adoption
89
Community
60
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
2226 days ago
Monthly downloads
957,184
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
957,184
Stars
14,740
Stars per 1k downloads
15.40
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
35,270
Month daily avg
31,906
Momentum
+10.5%
((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
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
2343 days ago
Total releases
11
Releases/year
1.2
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
25
Monthly downloads
957,184
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
61
Issue Burden
19.6
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
1.0%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
116d
PR Velocity
Active
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
20.8K
Windows
1.3K
macOS
142
Python Versions
3.11
41.5%
8.7K
3.12
38.3%
8.1K
3.10
11.0%
2.3K
3.7
5.5%
1.2K
3.8
3.7%
775
Top Countries
1.
US
17.2K
US
2.
RU
842
RU
3.
SG
762
SG
4.
IN
726
IN
5.
CN
539
CN
6.
DE
259
DE
7.
BE
201
BE
8.
VN
186
VN
9.
JP
169
JP
10.
NL
147
NL
Dependencies
9
- imageio
- matplotlib
- numpy >=1.15
- opencv-python
- pillow
- scikit-image >=0.14.2
- scipy
- shapely
- six
Used By
78
- keras-ocr
- deeplabcut
- vietocr
- torch-snippets
- pytorchyolo
- vgis-ai
- visioncube
- aiii-javharbek
- xdat
- pixellib
- fundus-image-toolbox
- image-augs
- chitra
- aideml
- anyimage
- atlalign
- musket-core
- growingnn
- deepaugment
- pero-ocr
- autotrain-vision
- ucr
- dora-rdt-1b
- wildbook-ia
- meter-detection
- image-ocr
- airclick
- torchcommon
- dlpipeline
- can-show-you-anything-ai
- sinapsis-anomalib
- bbaug
- ml-workflow
- ultrayolo
- plastic-origins
- codeforge
- hiad
- vebits-api
- biodetectron
- easy-paddle-ocr
- hover-net
- trial-ignchinmay
- erniekit
- fhailib
- icutil-ignchinmay
- bidcell
- synthetic-face-masks
- paddleocrwordleveldetection
- edurpa-document
- imgaug-extension
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.
Package Information
License
MIT
First Release
March 23, 2017
Last Release
6 years ago
Last Commit
6 years ago
Latest Version
0.4.0
Total Releases
11
Contributors
25
Open PRs
22
Archived
No
Author
Alexander Jung
Python Versions
2.7
3
3.4
3.5
3.6
3.7
3.8
Wheels
py2
py3
Keywords
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh