Is safer-buffer safe to use?

safer-buffer has no known vulnerabilities on the latest version (2.1.2). DepScope rates its health at 60/100 (moderate risk).

What is the latest version of safer-buffer?

The latest version of safer-buffer is 2.1.2, released 2018-04-08.

Does safer-buffer have known vulnerabilities?

No known vulnerabilities on the latest version of safer-buffer.

Is safer-buffer deprecated?

No, safer-buffer is actively maintained. Latest release: 2.1.2 (2018-04-08).

What are alternatives to safer-buffer?

Popular alternatives to safer-buffer in npm include: ?, semver, debug, ansi-styles, minimatch.

What license does safer-buffer use?

safer-buffer is licensed under MIT.

safer-buffer

npmv2.1.2

Modern Buffer API polyfill without footguns

License MITpermissive6 versions1 maintainers0 deps147,368,213 weekly dl

ChALkeR/safer-buffer

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Health

use with caution

[email protected] low health (60/100) — consider alternatives

Moderate health score (60/100) — verify manually

Health breakdown0 – 100

0/25

maintenance

20/20

popularity

25/25

security

12/15

maturity

3/15

community

0/15

popularity_floor

Vulnerabilities

none known

Bundle & TypeScript

📦

Bundle Size

1.3 KBminified

0.6 KB gzipped

0 direct dependencies

side effects

🌟

TypeScript

7/10typed

Types from @types/safer-buffer (DefinitelyTyped)

OSS Scorecard

OpenSSF security posture score

2.1/10

poor

Maintainer trust

Active maintainers (3m)

1

Contributors (12m)

0

Primary author dominance

0%

GitHub stars

27

single active maintainer 3m

Quality signals

OSS Criticality

0.78critical

Download trend

stable(+5.4%)

Publish security

npm signed

Health History

Dependency Tree

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