Known Vulnerability
The current version has a known security vulnerability. Review the advisory and consider upgrading.
Security Vulnerability
PYSEC-2026-4298
python-jose algorithm confusion guard bypassed by DER-encoded public keys
Source: osv.dev · Flagged: 23 hr ago
Security Vulnerability
Critical
GHSA-3qf3-8w2g-rqmx
python-jose algorithm confusion guard bypassed by DER-encoded public keys
Source: osv.dev · Flagged: 1 week ago
Downloads in the 30 and 7 days to October 10, 2026. Refreshed weekly.
Package Information
Latest Version
Requires Python
>=3.9
Licence
MIT
Last Release
1 year ago
Author
Michael Davis
First Release
April 22, 2015
Total Releases
38
Python Versions
3
3.9
3.10
3.11
3.12
3.13
Package Insights
Package Risks
- High downloads but no recent maintenance activity
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
40
Popularity
69
Adoption
80
Community
70
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
505 days ago
Monthly downloads
31,330,060
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
31,330,060
Stars
1,761
Stars per 1k downloads
0.06
•
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
1,099,789
Month daily avg
1,044,335
Momentum
+5.3%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100More insights and metrics
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.9
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
505 days ago
Total releases
38
Releases/year
3.3
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
56
Monthly downloads
31,330,060
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
66
Issue Burden
56.8
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
20.8%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
No
PR Velocity
Quiet
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
681.1K
Windows
6.4K
macOS
3.8K
Python Versions
3.12
44.6%
287.6K
3.11
31.6%
203.6K
3.13
14.2%
91.8K
3.14
5.7%
37.1K
3.10
3.8%
24.4K
Top Countries
1.
US
546.3K
US
2.
DE
25.0K
DE
3.
IN
14.8K
IN
4.
IE
11.6K
IE
5.
CA
9.9K
CA
6.
SG
8.2K
SG
7.
NL
7.4K
NL
8.
GB
7.3K
GB
9.
TW
6.2K
TW
10.
FR
6.0K
FR
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars *
Dependencies
3
5 optional dependencies
-
cryptography>=3.4.0[cryptography]extra == "cryptography"
-
pycrypto<2.7.0,>=2.6.0[pycrypto]extra == "pycrypto"
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pycryptodome<4.0.0,>=3.3.1[pycryptodome]extra == "pycryptodome"
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pytest[test]extra == "test"
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pytest-cov[test]extra == "test"
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