Is decompress safe to use?

decompress has 2 known vulnerabilities on the latest version (4.2.1). DepScope rates its health at 40/100 (high risk).

What is the latest version of decompress?

The latest version of decompress is 4.2.1, released 2020-04-01.

Does decompress have known vulnerabilities?

Yes. decompress has 2 known vulnerabilities. See depscope.dev/pkg/npm/decompress for details.

Is decompress deprecated?

No, decompress is actively maintained. Latest release: 4.2.1 (2020-04-01).

What are alternatives to decompress?

Popular alternatives to decompress in npm include: ?, ansi-styles, semver, brace-expansion, ms.

What license does decompress use?

decompress is licensed under MIT.

decompress

npmv4.2.1

Extracting archives made easy

License MITpermissive41 versions2 maintainers8 deps3,562,860 weekly dl

kevva/decompress

/ 100

Health

do not use

decompress has critical vulnerabilities — do not use

Update to >= 11.1.3 to fix known vulnerabilities

Moderate health score (40/100) — verify manually
1 critical vulnerabilities

Health breakdown0 – 100

0/25

maintenance

17/20

popularity

13/25

security

15/15

maturity

5/15

community

5/15

popularity_floor

Vulnerabilities

1 critical1 medium

Advisories (2)

Severity	ID	Summary	Fixed in
medium	CVE-2026-10732	decompress: Arbitrary File Write via Archive Extraction (Zip Slip)	—
critical	CVE-2026-53486	Decompress: Archive extraction can create files and links outside of the target directory	11.1.3

Bundle & TypeScript

🌟

TypeScript

7/10typed

Types from @types/decompress (DefinitelyTyped)

Quality signals

OSS Criticality

0.71critical

Publish security

npm signed

Health History

Dependency Tree

License Audit

Dependencies (8)

decompress-tar decompress-tarbz2 decompress-targz decompress-unzip graceful-fs make-dir pify strip-dirs

API access

Get this data programmatically — free, no authentication.

curl https://depscope.dev/api/check/npm/decompress

decompress

npmv4.2.1

Extracting archives made easy

License MITpermissive41 versions2 maintainers8 deps3,562,860 weekly dl

kevva/decompress

/ 100

Health

do not use

decompress has critical vulnerabilities — do not use

Update to >= 11.1.3 to fix known vulnerabilities

Moderate health score (40/100) — verify manually
1 critical vulnerabilities

Health breakdown0 – 100

0/25

maintenance

17/20

popularity

13/25

security

15/15

maturity

5/15

community

5/15

popularity_floor

Vulnerabilities

1 critical1 medium

Advisories (2)

Severity	ID	Summary	Fixed in
medium	CVE-2026-10732	decompress: Arbitrary File Write via Archive Extraction (Zip Slip)	—
critical	CVE-2026-53486	Decompress: Archive extraction can create files and links outside of the target directory	11.1.3

Bundle & TypeScript

🌟

TypeScript

7/10typed

Types from @types/decompress (DefinitelyTyped)

Quality signals

OSS Criticality

0.71critical

Publish security

npm signed

Health History

Dependency Tree

License Audit

Dependencies (8)

decompress-tar decompress-tarbz2 decompress-targz decompress-unzip graceful-fs make-dir pify strip-dirs

API access

Get this data programmatically — free, no authentication.

curl https://depscope.dev/api/check/npm/decompress