Known Vulnerability
The current version has a known security vulnerability. Review the advisory and consider upgrading.
Security Vulnerability
PYSEC-2026-504
Buffer overflow in sponge queue functions
Source: osv.dev · Flagged: 2 weeks ago
Security Vulnerability
Critical
GHSA-6w4m-2xhg-2658
Buffer overflow in sponge queue functions
Source: osv.dev · Flagged: 2 weeks ago
Monthly downloads
93.4K
Weekly downloads
18.2K
GitHub stars
29
Downloads in the 30 and 7 days to October 10, 2026. Refreshed weekly.
Package Information
Latest Version
Requires Python
Not specified
Licence
PSFL (Keccak: CC0 1.0 Universal)
Last Release
9 years ago
Author
Christian Heimes
First Release
October 4, 2012
Total Releases
10
Python Versions
2
2.7
3
3.4
3.5
Package Insights
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
6
Popularity
35
Adoption
49
Community
30
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
1445 days ago
Monthly downloads
93,361
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
93,361
Stars
29
Stars per 1k downloads
0.31
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
2,596
Month daily avg
3,112
Momentum
-16.6%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100More insights and metrics
Python version support tiers
requires_python
Not specified
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
Package does not declare a minimum Python version.
License categories
License
PSFL (Keccak: CC0 1.0 Universal)
•
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
3377 days ago
Total releases
10
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
4
Monthly downloads
93,361
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
37
Issue Burden
-
per 1k stars
Discussions
-
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
14.3%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
1931d
PR Velocity
Quiet
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
2.1K
Windows
24
macOS
12
Python Versions
3.12
22.3%
343
3.7
21.8%
335
3.6
19.1%
294
3.10
18.7%
288
3.8
18.1%
278
Top Countries
1.
US
1.2K
US
2.
GB
279
GB
3.
SG
161
SG
4.
MY
69
MY
5.
HK
68
HK
6.
DE
67
DE
7.
AU
45
AU
8.
CA
45
CA
9.
NL
41
NL
10.
BE
39
BE
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Dependencies
0
No dependencies
Used By
57
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Data and sources
Tracking Since
September 26, 2026
Data Updated
October 11, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh