Known Vulnerability
The current version has a known security vulnerability. Review the advisory and consider upgrading.
Security Vulnerability
PYSEC-2017-49
Source: osv.dev · Flagged: 1 month ago
kerberos has 2.6M monthly downloads and 118 GitHub stars. Version 1.3.1, first published in 2011.
Its repository is archived and was distributed under a permissive license, last released in Jan 2021.
It is used by 9 tracked packages, including impala-shell, django-kaminarimon and pubtools-quay.
Package Insights
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
4
Popularity
46
Adoption
80
Community
70
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
863 days ago
Monthly downloads
2,618,882
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
Repository is archived on GitHub — no further commits expected.
How the popularity category was determined
Monthly downloads
2,618,882
Stars
118
Stars per 1k downloads
0.05
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
89,081
Month daily avg
87,296
Momentum
+2.0%
((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, Version 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
2004 days ago
Total releases
8
Releases/year
0.5
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
19
Monthly downloads
2,618,882
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
67
Issue Burden
135.6
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
33.3%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
1141d
PR Velocity
Active
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
78.8K
macOS
12
Windows
9
Python Versions
3.10
54.1%
42.1K
3.11
12.8%
9.9K
3.12
12.3%
9.6K
3.13
11.1%
8.6K
3.14
9.7%
7.6K
Top Countries
1.
US
77.7K
US
2.
KR
591
KR
3.
AU
151
AU
4.
SG
132
SG
5.
GB
53
GB
6.
DE
37
DE
7.
BR
29
BR
8.
HK
27
HK
9.
RU
27
RU
10.
FR
20
FR
Dependencies
0
No dependencies
Package Information
License
Apache License, Version 2.0
First Release
April 27, 2011
Last Release
5 years ago
Last Commit
2 years ago
Latest Version
1.3.1
Total Releases
8
Contributors
19
Open PRs
10
Archived
Yes
Author
Apple Inc.
Python Versions
2
3
Wheels
cp27
cp38
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh