No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
zxcvbn has 5.3M monthly downloads and 714 GitHub stars. Version 4.5.0, first published in 2013.
It is minimally maintained under a permissive license, last released in Feb 2025.
It is used by 51 tracked packages, including django-zxcvbn-password-validator, keepercommander and flexget.
GitHub topics include security, password and zxcvbn.
Package Insights
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
30
Popularity
59
Adoption
80
Community
45
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
274 days ago
Monthly downloads
5,273,705
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
5,273,705
Stars
714
Stars per 1k downloads
0.14
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
183,765
Month daily avg
175,790
Momentum
+4.5%
((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
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
502 days ago
Total releases
6
Releases/year
0.4
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
15
Monthly downloads
5,273,705
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
48
Issue Burden
7.0
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
17.2%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
228d
PR Velocity
Quiet
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
66.6K
macOS
269
Windows
202
Python Versions
3.13
28.6%
19.0K
3.14
28.1%
18.7K
3.12
23.3%
15.5K
3.11
17.5%
11.6K
3.10
2.4%
1.6K
Top Countries
1.
US
53.2K
US
2.
AU
3.8K
AU
3.
IE
2.4K
IE
4.
DE
2.4K
DE
5.
SG
953
SG
6.
IN
656
IN
7.
CH
438
CH
8.
ID
408
ID
9.
DZ
280
DZ
10.
NL
253
NL
Dependencies
0
No dependencies
Used By
51
- django-zxcvbn-password-validator
- keepercommander
- flexget
- flask-security-invenio
- kenboard
- oarepo
- mempass
- openrag
- edc
- ocflib
- rdiffweb
- quantcrypt
- irrd
- pretalx
- chaoscypher-cortex
- openimis-be-core
- otobo
- pawpy-cli
- secure-password-manager
- vault-check
- odoo12-addon-password-security
- rhymepass
- stegvault
- odoo14-addon-password-security
- qabpassgen
- flexgettest
- pass-import
- fastapi-simple-auth
- odoo13-addon-password-security
- guardata
- openrag-nightly
- password-policy-compliance
- localpass
- rapydo
- passfx
- yapg
- passmeter
- passbolt-audit
- fraza
- pwdtools
- ansari-backend
- nut-cloud
- password-sandbox
- poottu
- fortifypass
- criscostack
- monoframe
- oscilla
- znuny
- flexgett
Package Information
License
MIT
First Release
February 20, 2013
Last Release
1 year ago
Last Commit
9 months ago
Latest Version
4.5.0
Total Releases
6
Contributors
15
Open PRs
5
Archived
No
Author
Daniel Wolf
Python Versions
3.8
3.9
3.10
3.11
3.12
Wheels
py2
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh