Known Vulnerability
The current version has a known security vulnerability. Review the advisory and consider upgrading.
Security Vulnerability
PYSEC-2026-1944
Litestar allows unbounded resource consumption (DoS vulnerability)
Source: osv.dev · Flagged: 2 weeks ago
Security Vulnerability
High
GHSA-gjcc-jvgw-wvwj
Litestar allows unbounded resource consumption (DoS vulnerability)
Source: osv.dev · Flagged: 2 weeks ago
Downloads in the 30 and 7 days to October 10, 2026. Refreshed weekly.
Package Information
Latest Version
Requires Python
<4.0,>=3.8
Licence
MIT
Last Release
2 years ago
Author
Janek Nouvertné
First Release
December 6, 2021
Total Releases
144
Python Versions
3
3.8
3.9
3.10
3.11
3.12
Package Insights
Package Risks
- No releases in 883 days despite active commits
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
90
Popularity
83
Adoption
71
Community
70
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
10 days ago
Monthly downloads
15,834
•
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
15,834
Stars
8,507
Stars per 1k downloads
537.26
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
589
Month daily avg
528
Momentum
+11.7%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100More insights and metrics
Python version support tiers
requires_python
<4.0,>=3.8
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
893 days ago
Total releases
144
Releases/year
29.6
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
311
Monthly downloads
15,834
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
82
Issue Burden
26.6
per 1k stars
Discussions
32.3
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
46.9%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
883d
PR Velocity
Quiet
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
243
Python Versions
3.10
47.2%
103
3.11
22.0%
48
3.12
21.6%
47
3.8
5.5%
12
3.7
3.7%
8
Top Countries
1.
SG
141
SG
2.
US
110
US
3.
CN
10
CN
4.
AU
8
AU
5.
HK
7
HK
6.
ES
3
ES
7.
HR
3
HR
8.
DE
2
DE
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars *
Dependencies
12
- anyio <4,>=3
- fast-query-parsers
- httpx >=0.22
-
importlib-metadata
python_version < "3.10"
- mako >=1.2.4
- msgspec >=0.11.0
- multidict >=6.0.2
- pydantic <2
- pydantic-factories
- pydantic-openapi-schema >=1.5.0
- pyyaml
- typing-extensions
12 optional dependencies
-
aiomcache[memcached]extra == "memcached" or extra == "full"
-
brotli[brotli]extra == "brotli" or extra == "full"
-
click[cli]extra == "cli" or extra == "standard" or extra == "full"
-
cryptography[cryptography]extra == "cryptography" or extra == "jwt" or extra == "full"
-
jinja2>=3.1.2[jinja]extra == "jinja" or extra == "standard" or extra == "full"
-
jsbeautifier[cli]extra == "cli" or extra == "standard"
-
opentelemetry-instrumentation-asgi[opentelemetry]extra == "opentelemetry" or extra == "full"
-
picologging[picologging]extra == "picologging" or extra == "standard" or extra == "full"
-
python-jose[jwt]extra == "jwt" or extra == "full"
-
redis[redis]extra == "redis" or extra == "full"
-
rich>=13.0.0[cli]extra == "cli" or extra == "standard" or extra == "full"
-
structlog[structlog]extra == "structlog" or extra == "full"
Used By
8
- starlite-saqlalchemy 695/mo
- starlite-users 292/mo
- playbacker 190/mo
- starlite-jwt 187/mo
- starlite-sessions 126/mo
- starlite-react 62/mo
- identity-sdk 60/mo
- starlite-starception 57/mo