Is faker safe to use?

faker has 1 known vulnerabilities on the latest version (6.6.6). DepScope rates its health at 55/100 (high risk).

What is the latest version of faker?

The latest version of faker is 6.6.6, released 2022-01-05.

Does faker have known vulnerabilities?

Yes. faker has 1 known vulnerabilities. See depscope.dev/pkg/npm/faker for details.

No, faker is actively maintained. Latest release: 6.6.6 (2022-01-05).

What are alternatives to faker?

Popular alternatives to faker in npm include: ?, semver, minimatch, debug, brace-expansion.

faker

npmv6.6.6

Generate massive amounts of fake contextual data

License MITpermissive29 versions1 maintainers0 deps2,689,645 weekly dl

Marak/Faker.js

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Health

do not use

faker: version matches a known historical supply-chain compromise. DO NOT install.

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Historical compromise KB matches current version (1 incident(s))

Health breakdown0 – 100

0/25

maintenance

17/20

popularity

20/25

security

15/15

maturity

2/15

community

1/15

popularity_floor

Vulnerabilities

1 high

Advisories (1)

Severity	ID	Summary	Fixed in
high	GHSA-5w9c-rv96-fr7g	Removal of functional code in faker.js	—

Bundle & TypeScript

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TypeScript

7/10typed

Types from @types/faker (DefinitelyTyped)

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