Is shlex safe to use?

shlex has no known vulnerabilities on the latest version (2.0.1). DepScope rates its health at 82/100 (low risk).

What is the latest version of shlex?

The latest version of shlex is 2.0.1, released 2026-05-17.

Does shlex have known vulnerabilities?

No known vulnerabilities on the latest version of shlex.

No, shlex is actively maintained. Latest release: 2.0.1 (2026-05-17).

What are alternatives to shlex?

Popular alternatives to shlex in Cargo include: hashbrown, getrandom, syn, rand.

What license does shlex use?

shlex is licensed under MIT OR Apache-2.0.

shlex

cargov2.0.1

Split a string into shell words, like Python's shlex.

License MIT OR Apache-2.0permissive9 versions0 deps217,762,489 weekly dl

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Health

safe to use

[email protected] is safe to use (health: 82/100)

Health breakdown0 – 100

20/25

maintenance

20/20

popularity

25/25

security

15/15

maturity

2/15

community

0/15

popularity_floor

Vulnerabilities

none known

OSS Scorecard

OpenSSF security posture score

3.6/10

weak

Maintainer trust

Active maintainers (3m)

2

Contributors (12m)

3

Primary author dominance

84%

GitHub stars

153

Quality signals

OSS Criticality

0.78critical

Download trend

stable(+4.6%)

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