Known Vulnerability
The current version has a known security vulnerability. Review the advisory and consider upgrading.
Security Vulnerability
High
GHSA-9g3x-6x24-vf9f
pdfkit: Path traversal in from_string
Source: osv.dev · Flagged: 2 weeks ago
pdfkit has 6.1M monthly downloads and 2K GitHub stars. Version 1.0.0, first published in 2013.
It is showing limited recent maintenance under a permissive license, last released in Nov 2021.
It is used by 135 tracked packages, including vaxrank, scout-browser and meta-edc.
Package Insights
Package Risks
- No releases in 668 days despite active commits
- High downloads but no recent maintenance activity
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
20
Popularity
71
Adoption
100
Community
55
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
1026 days ago
Monthly downloads
6,104,975
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
6,104,975
Stars
2,039
Stars per 1k downloads
0.33
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
407,663
Month daily avg
203,499
Momentum
+100.3%
((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
1695 days ago
Total releases
9
Releases/year
0.7
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
32
Monthly downloads
6,104,975
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
60
Issue Burden
20.1
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
9.8%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
668d
PR Velocity
Quiet
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
57.8K
Windows
1.5K
macOS
395
Python Versions
3.12
36.8%
19.5K
3.14
29.6%
15.7K
3.11
15.9%
8.5K
3.10
10.6%
5.6K
3.13
7.1%
3.7K
Top Countries
1.
US
358.5K
US
2.
DK
82.4K
DK
3.
SE
14.7K
SE
4.
DE
2.3K
DE
5.
IN
1.7K
IN
6.
SG
970
SG
7.
CN
722
CN
8.
IE
612
IE
9.
NL
563
NL
10.
DZ
562
DZ
Dependencies
0
No dependencies
Used By
135
- vaxrank
- scout-browser
- meta-edc
- agentfoundry
- freetvg-karjakak
- triton-model-analyzer
- chanjo-report
- documentdataextraction
- ymvas
- turbopdf
- zango
- chartpy
- intelligence-toolkit
- mobsf
- docsray
- landrecords-card-reader
- crate-anon
- canoa-data-validate
- waldur-mastermind
- buisciii-tools
- hide-code
- openavmkit
- featureflex
- x-4357-make-markdown-x
- nadf
- enex2notion
- translation-gummy
- django-pdf-view
- lab-student-survey
- edc-reports
- x-make-markdown-x
- x-4357-make-pypi-x
- x-make-pypi-x
- py-research
- linkmlformbuilder
- camcops-server
- bbrc-validator
- pdfdol
- fedstylevalidator
- zmp-notion-exporter
- anyvec
- pengent
- newick-visualizer
- blackduck-remediation-metrics
- arh
- materials-informatics-agent
- sequana-hic
- group-buy-organizer
- oskaragent
- faiz
Package Information
License
MIT
First Release
January 8, 2013
Last Release
4 years ago
Last Commit
2 years ago
Latest Version
1.0.0
Total Releases
9
Contributors
32
Open PRs
7
Archived
No
Author
Golovanov Stanislav
Python Versions
2.7
3.2
3.3
3.4
3.5
3.6
3.7
3.8
3.9
Wheels
py2
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh