Known Vulnerability
The current version has a known security vulnerability. Review the advisory and consider upgrading.
Security Vulnerability
PYSEC-2023-142
Source: osv.dev · Flagged: 1 month ago
vyper has 174K monthly downloads and 5K GitHub stars. Version 0.4.3 supports Python <4,>=3.10, first published in 2018.
It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in Jun 2025.
It is used by 17 tracked packages, including eth-brownie, titanoboa and pytest-ethereum.
GitHub topics include vyper, language and ethereum.
Package Insights
Package Risks
- No releases in 380 days despite active commits
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
100
Popularity
81
Adoption
62
Community
80
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
3 days ago
Monthly downloads
173,864
•
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
173,864
Stars
5,179
Stars per 1k downloads
29.79
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
5,678
Month daily avg
5,795
Momentum
-2.0%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
<4,>=3.10
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
Apache License 2.0
•
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
383 days ago
Total releases
77
Releases/year
9.8
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
235
Monthly downloads
173,864
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
86
Issue Burden
109.3
per 1k stars
Discussions
5.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
25.9%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
380d
PR Velocity
Active
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
3.5K
Windows
863
macOS
852
Python Versions
3.11
73.3%
3.6K
3.13
8.6%
425
3.12
6.5%
321
3.14
6.1%
298
3.8
5.4%
266
Top Countries
1.
US
4.3K
US
2.
SG
742
SG
3.
IE
52
IE
4.
CN
41
CN
5.
HK
35
HK
6.
VN
11
VN
7.
IN
9
IN
8.
DE
8
DE
9.
IT
8
IT
10.
FI
4
FI
Dependencies
0
No dependencies
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.
Package Information
License
Apache License 2.0
First Release
August 22, 2018
Last Release
1 year ago
Last Commit
4 days ago
Latest Version
0.4.3
Total Releases
77
Contributors
235
Open PRs
128
Archived
No
Author
Vyper Team
Python Versions
3.10
3.11
3.12
3.13
Wheels
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh