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2 high-severity dependency CVEs affects v1.15.4.

Review the dependency vulnerabilities below.

— Signed — SLSA — SBOM ✗ Security policy Monthly cadence · 32d median Active maintainer

Trust Signals — 2 of 9 Present

Evidence already collected from releases and repository metadata.

2/9 Present
Signed releases Unknown
Latest release artifact signature Latest release
SLSA provenance Unknown
Attestation predicate level Latest release
SBOM published Unknown
GitHub SBOM API Latest release
SECURITY.md Absent
GitHub repository metadata Repository policy
Checked: 22d ago
Release cadence: monthly Present
32d median over recent releases Release history
Latest release: today
Maintainer active Present
Recent commit activity Repository
Last commit: today
Checksums (SHA256SUMS) Not active yet
SHA256SUMS or equivalent Release asset
Latest release: today
GitHub Actions attestation Not active yet
actions/attest-build-provenance Workflow file
Latest release: today
Signing assets Not active yet
.sig, .crt, cosign.pub, or similar Release asset
Latest release: today
4.1/10 Security Score
5.8/10 Scorecard
Dependency Exposure 8 transitive dependency CVEs found in the latest SBOM.

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

1.00 / 1.0

Up to date

scorecard

2.32 / 4.0

Score 5.8/10

cve health

0.00 / 2.5

⚠ No direct scan — 1c/19h transitive 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 42.8/100

Score breakdown

schema v2

Vulnerability posture

vulnerability posture

0.0

25%

direct cves: clear cve scan: estimated

Release responsiveness

release responsiveness

10.0

5%

patch speed days: no_history

Dependency exposure

dependency exposure

5.7

10%

supply chain risk: 42.81 transitive cves: 1c/19h

Provenance trust

provenance trust

5.8

40%

scorecard score: 5.8 openssf badge: none

Maintainer health

maintainer health

10.0

10%

activity freshness: 0d

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 42.8/100
0 Transitive critical CVEs
0 KEV-transitive CVEs
60% Dependency freshness

Scorecard

Scorecard 5.8/10

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

Check Score Reason
Maintained 10 30 commit(s) and 2 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 10
Code-Review 10 all changesets reviewed
Packaging -1 packaging workflow not detected
Dangerous-Workflow 10 no dangerous workflow patterns detected
CII-Best-Practices 0 no effort to earn an OpenSSF best practices badge detected
Token-Permissions 0 detected GitHub workflow tokens with excessive permissions
Binary-Artifacts 10 no binaries found in the repo
Fuzzing 0 project is not fuzzed
License 9 license file detected
Branch-Protection 6 branch protection is not maximal on development and all release branches
Signed-Releases 0 Project has not signed or included provenance with any releases.
Security-Policy 10 security policy file detected
Pinned-Dependencies 5 dependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 5
SAST 0 SAST tool is not run on all commits -- score normalized to 0

OpenSSF Badge

OpenSSF none

Badge indicates adherence to open-source best practices.

Dependency Vulnerabilities

1485 dependencies scanned View full dependency list →

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

Critical

0

High

2

Medium

2

Low

3

Unknown

1

High 2 Medium 2 Low 3 Unknown 1
CVE Severity KEV Dependency Affected version Cleared in release
CVE-2020-7753 high trim 0.0.1 v1.15.4
CVE-2022-38900 high decode-uri-component 0.2.0 v1.15.4
CVE-2025-58058 medium github.com/ulikunitz/xz v0.5.14 v1.15.4
CVE-2026-33750 medium brace-expansion 1.1.11 v1.15.4
CVE-2025-54798 low tmp 0.0.33 v1.15.4
CVE-2025-5889 low brace-expansion 1.1.11 v1.15.4
CVE-2026-3449 low @tootallnate/once 1.1.2 v1.15.4
CVE-2026-33814 unknown golang.org/x/net v0.48.0 v1.15.4

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