Previous Security Advisory
Malicious Package
PYSEC-2024-154
A number of releases of ultralytics contained malicious crypto miner software.
Source: osv.dev · Flagged: 3 months ago
Affected versions:
8.3.41, 8.3.42, 8.3.43, 8.3.44, 8.3.45, 8.3.46
The current version (
8.4.90) is not affected.
ultralytics has 9M monthly downloads and 59K GitHub stars. Version 8.4.90 supports Python 3.8+, first published in 2021.
It is actively maintained under a copyleft license, last released in Jul 2026.
It is built on top of matplotlib, numpy and nvidia-ml-py. It is used by 543 tracked packages, including yolov5, qrdet and recognizer.
GitHub topics include ultralytics, yolov8 and yolo.
Package Insights
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
100
Popularity
96
Adoption
70
Community
80
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
2 days ago
Monthly downloads
9,047,410
•
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
9,047,410
Stars
59,158
Stars per 1k downloads
6.54
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
297,672
Month daily avg
301,580
Momentum
-1.3%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.8
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
License categories
License
AGPL-3.0
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
1 days ago
Total releases
774
Releases/year
143.6
•
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
550
Monthly downloads
9,047,410
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
94
Issue Burden
1.0
per 1k stars
Discussions
37.1
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
4.9%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
No
PR Velocity
Quiet
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
151.6K
Windows
37.4K
macOS
18.2K
Python Versions
3.12
37.5%
69.5K
3.11
16.9%
31.3K
3.8
16.5%
30.6K
3.13
15.6%
28.9K
3.10
13.6%
25.1K
Top Countries
1.
US
96.2K
US
2.
CN
14.1K
CN
3.
SG
12.2K
SG
4.
IN
11.2K
IN
5.
KR
8.4K
KR
6.
NL
6.6K
NL
7.
SE
6.3K
SE
8.
JP
6.1K
JP
9.
DE
5.7K
DE
10.
CA
3.5K
CA
Dependencies
12
- matplotlib >=3.3.0
- numpy >=1.23.0
- nvidia-ml-py >=12.0.0
- opencv-python >=4.6.0
- pillow >=7.1.2
- polars >=0.20.0
- psutil >=5.8.0
- pyyaml >=5.3.1
- requests >=2.23.0
- torch >=1.8.0
- torchvision >=0.9.0
- ultralytics-thop >=2.0.18
48 optional dependencies
- ai-edge-litert[export-litert]
- ai-edge-quantizer[export-litert]
- albumentations[extra]
- coremltools[export-coreml]
- coverage[dev]
- dx-com[export-deepx]
- executorch[export-executorch]
- faster-coco-eval[extra]
- flask[solutions]
- googleapis-common-protos[export-tensorflow]
- h5py[export-tensorflow]
- ipython[dev]
- ipython[extra]
- lap[solutions]
- litert-torch[export-litert]
- minijinja[dev]
- mkdocs-ultralytics-plugin[dev]
- mlflow[logging]
- nncf[export-base]
- numpy[export-legacy-torch]
- numpy[export-coreml]
- numpy[export-deepx]
- numpy[export-executorch]
- numpy[export-tensorflow]
- onnx[export-base]
- onnxruntime[export-base]
- onnxslim[export-base]
- openvino[export-base]
- packaging[export-base]
- pytest[dev]
- pytest-cov[dev]
- pytest-xdist[dev]
- scikit-learn[export-coreml]
- setuptools[export-legacy-torch]
- shapely[solutions]
- streamlit[solutions]
- tensorboard[logging]
- tensorflow[export-tensorflow]
- tensorstore[export-tensorflow]
- types-pillow[typing]
- types-psutil[typing]
- types-pyyaml[typing]
- types-requests[typing]
- types-shapely[typing]
- ultralytics[export]
- wandb[logging]
- ydf[export-tensorflow]
- zensical[dev]
Used By
543
- yolov5
- qrdet
- recognizer
- cua-som
- pytorchwildlife
- ultralyticsplus
- pumaguard
- 3lc-ultralytics
- vision-agents-plugins-ultralytics
- ayase
- commonforms
- danila-lib
- acmenra-cv
- synapse-assistant-ai
- bluer-algo
- vizion3d
- mustatil
- yolo4r
- coralnet-toolbox
- mindtrace-models
- pylcaptcha
- rsp-ml
- vllama
- anticap
- vogel-model-trainer
- imagesorcery-mcp
- adetailer
- netkiller-yoloutils
- occlude
- bplusplus
- dora-yolo
- patched-yolo-infer
- ispy-frc
- animl
- visioncube
- autodistill-yolov8
- pyclef
- ir-yolo-tracker
- graphvision-ai
- yolodetection
- deepvisiontools
- rara-digitizer
- nedo-vision-worker-core
- wenbi
- yolo-mslesseg
- jwztumor
- particleanalyzer
- yolo-poser
- blackletter
- dnt
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.
Package Information
License
AGPL-3.0
First Release
February 17, 2021
Last Release
2 days ago
Last Commit
2 days ago
Latest Version
8.4.90
Total Releases
774
Contributors
550
Open PRs
140
Archived
No
Python Versions
3
3.8
3.9
3.10
3.11
3.12
3.13
Wheels
py3
Keywords
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh