Is socket2 safe to use?

socket2 has no known vulnerabilities on the latest version (0.6.4). DepScope rates its health at 88/100 (low risk).

What is the latest version of socket2?

The latest version of socket2 is 0.6.4, released 2026-05-28.

Does socket2 have known vulnerabilities?

No known vulnerabilities on the latest version of socket2.

Is socket2 deprecated?

No, socket2 is actively maintained. Latest release: 0.6.4 (2026-05-28).

What are alternatives to socket2?

Popular alternatives to socket2 in Cargo include: hashbrown, getrandom, windows-sys, syn, rand_core.

What license does socket2 use?

socket2 is licensed under MIT OR Apache-2.0.

socket2

cargov0.6.4

Utilities for handling networking sockets with a maximal amount of configuration possible intended.

License MIT OR Apache-2.0permissive58 versions0 deps212,352,992 weekly dl

rust-lang/socket2

/ 100

Health

safe to use

[email protected] is safe to use (health: 88/100)

Health breakdown0 – 100

25/25

maintenance

20/20

popularity

25/25

security

15/15

maturity

3/15

community

0/15

popularity_floor

Vulnerabilities

none known

OSS Scorecard

OpenSSF security posture score

5.9/10

moderate

Maintainer trust

Active maintainers (3m)

7

Contributors (12m)

22

Primary author dominance

41%

GitHub stars

838

Quality signals

OSS Criticality

0.78critical

Download trend

stable(+2.6%)

Health History

Dependency Tree

License Audit

API access

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socket2

cargov0.6.4

Utilities for handling networking sockets with a maximal amount of configuration possible intended.

License MIT OR Apache-2.0permissive58 versions0 deps212,352,992 weekly dl

rust-lang/socket2

/ 100

Health

safe to use

[email protected] is safe to use (health: 88/100)

Health breakdown0 – 100

25/25

maintenance

20/20

popularity

25/25

security

15/15

maturity

3/15

community

0/15

popularity_floor

Vulnerabilities

none known

OSS Scorecard

OpenSSF security posture score

5.9/10

moderate

Maintainer trust

Active maintainers (3m)

7

Contributors (12m)

22

Primary author dominance

41%

GitHub stars

838

Quality signals

OSS Criticality

0.78critical

Download trend

stable(+2.6%)

Health History

Dependency Tree

License Audit

API access

Get this data programmatically — free, no authentication.

curl https://depscope.dev/api/check/cargo/socket2