No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
yara-python has 1.6M monthly downloads and 748 GitHub stars. Version 4.5.4, first published in 2016.
It is stably maintained under a permissive license, last released in May 2025.
It is used by 81 tracked packages, including guarddog, cisco-ai-mcp-scanner and bbot.
GitHub topics include yara.
Package Insights
Package Risks
- No releases in 329 days despite active commits
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
80
Popularity
63
Adoption
80
Community
70
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
75 days ago
Monthly downloads
1,596,658
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
1,596,658
Stars
748
Stars per 1k downloads
0.47
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
56,438
Month daily avg
53,222
Momentum
+6.0%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
Not specified
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
Package does not declare a minimum Python version.
License categories
License
Apache 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
405 days ago
Total releases
29
Releases/year
2.9
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
99
Monthly downloads
1,596,658
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
72
Issue Burden
41.4
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
51.3%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
329d
PR Velocity
Quiet
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
25.6K
Windows
3.8K
macOS
3.1K
Python Versions
3.12
58.2%
17.6K
3.13
18.3%
5.5K
3.11
16.0%
4.8K
3.14
4.3%
1.3K
3.7
3.3%
984
Top Countries
1.
US
24.9K
US
2.
NL
1.9K
NL
3.
SG
998
SG
4.
FR
728
FR
5.
DE
684
DE
6.
CA
552
CA
7.
IN
450
IN
8.
HK
384
HK
9.
CN
282
CN
10.
IE
241
IE
Dependencies
0
No dependencies
Used By
81
- guarddog
- cisco-ai-mcp-scanner
- bbot
- assemblyline
- malduck
- badsecrets
- rat-king-parser
- cape-parsers
- mwcp
- quicksand
- avai-monitor
- plaso
- capesolo
- thug
- yaralyzer
- unipacker
- grr-response-core
- detectiq
- ts-deepscan
- rugosa
- peframe-ds
- cisco-ai-a2a-scanner
- karton-classifier
- balbuzard-3
- page-brute
- yara-scanner
- yara-mail
- cccs-yara
- omni-bot-sdk
- goresolver
- yls-yara
- r2inspect
- rustbininfo
- baish
- django-middleware-fileuploadvalidation
- insect
- kicomav
- defender2yara
- nusantarascan
- ludvig
- kordesii
- pyhids
- tldw-server
- pwnit
- pydiscobasepro
- donut-decryptor
- badfiles
- malforge
- uicx-ultimate-tool
- karton-yaramatcher
Package Information
License
Apache 2.0
First Release
August 3, 2016
Last Release
1 year ago
Last Commit
2 months ago
Latest Version
4.5.4
Total Releases
29
Contributors
99
Open PRs
3
Archived
No
Author
Victor M. Alvarez
Wheels
cp310
cp311
cp312
cp313
pp310
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh