Is Cabal safe to use?

Cabal has 1 known vulnerabilities on the latest version (3.16.1.0). DepScope rates its health at 57/100 (high risk).

What is the latest version of Cabal?

The latest version of Cabal is 3.16.1.0, released 2026-01-01.

Does Cabal have known vulnerabilities?

Yes. Cabal has 1 known vulnerabilities. See depscope.dev/pkg/hackage/Cabal for details.

No, Cabal is actively maintained. Latest release: 3.16.1.0 (2026-01-01).

What are alternatives to Cabal?

DepScope has no curated alternatives for Cabal at this time.

What license does Cabal use?

Cabal is licensed under BSD-3-Clause.

Cabal

hackagev3.16.1.0

A framework for packaging Haskell software

License BSD-3-Clausepermissive81 versions1 maintainers0 deps

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Health

use with caution

[email protected] low health (57/100) — consider alternatives

Moderate health score (57/100) — verify manually

Health breakdown0 – 100

15/25

maintenance

0/20

popularity

25/25

security

15/15

maturity

2/15

community

Vulnerabilities

1 low

Advisories (1)

Severity	ID	Summary	Fixed in
unknown	HSEC-2026-0006	Cabal deletes project source files during configure	—

Maintainer trust

Active maintainers (3m)

19

Contributors (12m)

19

Primary author dominance

51%

GitHub stars

1,728

Health History

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Last updated · 2026-01-01T12:36:13.216853702Z