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3 critical dependency CVEs affects v2.0.9.

Audit transitive dependencies; consider upgrading or pinning replacements.

✗ Signed ✗ SLSA ✓ SBOM ✗ Security policy Unknown cadence Sporadic maintainer

Trust Signals — 2 of 9 Present

Evidence already collected from releases and repository metadata.

2/9 Present
Signed releases Absent
Latest release artifact signature None
Last verified: 18d ago
SLSA provenance Absent
Attestation predicate level Latest release
Last verified: 18d ago
SBOM published Present
GitHub SBOM API Latest release
Last verified: 28d ago
SECURITY.md Absent
GitHub repository metadata Repository policy
Checked: 17d ago
Release cadence Unknown
12-release median Release history
Latest release: 4mo ago
Maintainer sporadic Present
Recent commit activity Repository
Last commit: 3mo ago
Checksums (SHA256SUMS) Not active yet
SHA256SUMS or equivalent Release asset
Latest release: 4mo ago
GitHub Actions attestation Not active yet
actions/attest-build-provenance Workflow file
Latest release: 4mo ago
Signing assets Not active yet
.sig, .crt, cosign.pub, or similar Release asset
Latest release: 4mo ago
2.5/10 Security Score
2.5/10 Scorecard
Dependency Exposure 85 transitive dependency CVEs found in the latest SBOM. 3 critical.

Security Score

A composite score aggregating Scorecard performance, CVE patch history, OpenSSF badge tier, and dependency vulnerability exposure. Score ≥ 7.0 is healthy; < 4.0 warrants attention.

epss

0.25 / 0.5

No EPSS data

freshness

0.76 / 1.0

111d stale

scorecard

1.00 / 4.0

Score 2.5/10

cve health

0.00 / 2.5

No open CVEs

patch speed

0.50 / 0.5

⚠ Estimated — no CVE patch history

kev exposure

1.50 / 1.5

No KEV exposure

supply chain risk

-1.50 / 10.0

Risk 95.0/100

Score breakdown

schema v2

Vulnerability posture

vulnerability posture

0.0

25%

direct cves: clear cve scan: available

Release responsiveness

release responsiveness

10.0

5%

patch speed days: no_history

Dependency exposure

dependency exposure

0.5

10%

supply chain risk: 95.04 transitive cves: 3c/41h

Provenance trust

provenance trust

2.5

40%

scorecard score: 2.5 openssf badge: none

Maintainer health

maintainer health

7.6

10%

activity freshness: 111d

Operational risk

operational risk

8.5

10%

kev exposure: clear epss max: none
How is this calculated?

The six dimensions group the legacy score signals into weighted categories: direct vulnerability status, patch responsiveness, dependency exposure, provenance checks, maintainer activity, and exploitability risk. The flat component values above remain available for compatibility.

Supply Chain Risk

Risk 95.0/100
3 Transitive critical CVEs
0 KEV-transitive CVEs
48% Dependency freshness

Scorecard

Scorecard 2.5/10

OpenSSF Scorecard evaluates supply-chain security practices automatically. Score ≥ 6 is passing; ≥ 8 is excellent.

Check Score Reason
Binary-Artifacts 10 no binaries found in the repo
Packaging -1 packaging workflow not detected
Maintained 0 0 commit(s) and 0 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 0
Dangerous-Workflow 10 no dangerous workflow patterns detected
Code-Review 0 Found 0/30 approved changesets -- score normalized to 0
Pinned-Dependencies 0 dependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 0
SAST 0 no SAST tool detected
Token-Permissions 0 detected GitHub workflow tokens with excessive permissions
CII-Best-Practices 0 no effort to earn an OpenSSF best practices badge detected
Security-Policy 0 security policy file not detected
License 10 license file detected
Fuzzing 0 project is not fuzzed
Branch-Protection 0 branch protection not enabled on development/release branches
Signed-Releases 0 Project has not signed or included provenance with any releases.

OpenSSF Badge

OpenSSF none

Badge indicates adherence to open-source best practices.

Dependency Vulnerabilities

314 dependencies scanned View full dependency list →

Scanning the SBOM (Software Bill of Materials) of the latest release for known vulnerabilities in transitive dependencies.

Critical

3

High

41

Medium

30

Low

11

Unknown

0

Critical 3 High 41 Medium 30 Low 11
CVE Severity KEV Dependency Affected version Cleared in release
CVE-2019-5477 critical nokogiri 1.10.3
CVE-2022-30123 critical rack 2.0.7
GHSA-353f-x4gh-cqq8 critical nokogiri 1.10.3
CVE-2018-25032 high nokogiri 1.10.3
CVE-2019-13117 high nokogiri 1.10.3
CVE-2019-13118 high nokogiri 1.10.3
CVE-2019-18197 high nokogiri 1.10.3
CVE-2019-5815 high nokogiri 1.10.3
CVE-2020-7595 high nokogiri 1.10.3
CVE-2020-8161 high rack 2.0.7
CVE-2020-8184 high rack 2.0.7
CVE-2021-30560 high nokogiri 1.10.3
CVE-2021-3517 high nokogiri 1.10.3
CVE-2021-3518 high nokogiri 1.10.3
CVE-2021-41098 high nokogiri 1.10.3
CVE-2022-24836 high nokogiri 1.10.3
CVE-2022-29181 high nokogiri 1.10.3
CVE-2022-29970 high sinatra 2.0.5
CVE-2022-30122 high rack 2.0.7
CVE-2022-44570 high rack 2.0.7
CVE-2022-45442 high sinatra 2.0.5
CVE-2023-27530 high rack 2.0.7
CVE-2025-27610 high rack 2.0.7
CVE-2025-46727 high rack 2.0.7
CVE-2025-59830 high rack 2.0.7
CVE-2025-61770 high rack 2.0.7
CVE-2025-61771 high rack 2.0.7
CVE-2025-61772 high rack 2.0.7
CVE-2025-61919 high rack 2.0.7
CVE-2026-22860 high rack 2.0.7
CVE-2026-26996 high minimatch 9.0.5
CVE-2026-27903 high minimatch 9.0.5
CVE-2026-27904 high minimatch 9.0.5
CVE-2026-33671 high picomatch 2.3.1
CVE-2026-34230 high rack 2.0.7
CVE-2026-34785 high rack 2.0.7
CVE-2026-34829 high rack 2.0.7
CVE-2026-4800 high lodash 4.17.21
GHSA-c4rq-3m3g-8wgx high nokogiri 1.10.3
GHSA-cgx6-hpwq-fhv5 high nokogiri 1.10.3
GHSA-fq42-c5rg-92c2 high nokogiri 1.10.3
GHSA-gx8x-g87m-h5q6 high nokogiri 1.10.3
GHSA-mrxw-mxhj-p664 high nokogiri 1.10.3
GHSA-v6gp-9mmm-c6p5 high nokogiri 1.10.3
CVE-2019-16782 medium rack 2.0.7
CVE-2020-26247 medium nokogiri 1.10.3
CVE-2020-8130 medium rake 12.3.2
CVE-2021-3537 medium nokogiri 1.10.3
CVE-2024-21510 medium sinatra 2.0.5
CVE-2024-25126 medium rack 2.0.7
CVE-2025-13465 medium lodash 4.17.21
CVE-2025-25184 medium rack 2.0.7
CVE-2025-27111 medium rack 2.0.7
CVE-2025-32441 medium rack 2.0.7
CVE-2025-61780 medium rack 2.0.7
CVE-2026-25500 medium rack 2.0.7
CVE-2026-26961 medium rack 2.0.7
CVE-2026-2950 medium lodash 4.17.21
CVE-2026-33672 medium picomatch 2.3.1
CVE-2026-33750 medium brace-expansion 1.1.11
CVE-2026-34763 medium rack 2.0.7
CVE-2026-34786 medium rack 2.0.7
CVE-2026-34826 medium rack 2.0.7
CVE-2026-34830 medium rack 2.0.7
CVE-2026-34831 medium rack 2.0.7
CVE-2026-41305 medium postcss 8.5.6
GHSA-2qc6-mcvw-92cw medium nokogiri 1.10.3
GHSA-7rrm-v45f-jp64 medium nokogiri 1.10.3
GHSA-pxvg-2qj5-37jq medium nokogiri 1.10.3
GHSA-v2fc-qm4h-8hqv medium nokogiri 1.10.3
GHSA-vvjj-xcjg-gr5g medium nodemailer 8.0.1
GHSA-wx95-c6cv-8532 medium nokogiri 1.10.3
GHSA-xc9x-jj77-9p9j medium nokogiri 1.10.3
GHSA-xxx9-3xcr-gjj3 medium nokogiri 1.10.3
CVE-2022-44571 low rack 2.0.7
CVE-2022-44572 low rack 2.0.7
CVE-2023-27539 low rack 2.0.7
CVE-2024-26141 low rack 2.0.7
CVE-2024-26146 low rack 2.0.7
CVE-2025-5889 low brace-expansion 1.1.11
CVE-2025-61921 low sinatra 2.0.5
GHSA-5w6v-399v-w3cc low nokogiri 1.10.3
GHSA-c7w3-x93f-qmm8 low nodemailer 8.0.1
GHSA-r95h-9x8f-r3f7 low nokogiri 1.10.3
GHSA-vvfq-8hwr-qm4m low nokogiri 1.10.3

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