Is PYYAML safe to use?

PYYAML has no known vulnerabilities on the latest version (6.0.3). DepScope rates its health at 49/100 (high risk).

What is the latest version of PYYAML?

The latest version of PYYAML is 6.0.3, released 2025-09-25.

No known vulnerabilities on the latest version of PYYAML.

No, PYYAML is actively maintained. Latest release: 6.0.3 (2025-09-25).

Popular alternatives to PYYAML in PyPI include: typing-extensions, requests, charset_normalizer, cryptography, aiobotocore.

pypiv6.0.3

YAML parser and emitter for Python

License MITpermissive40 versions1 maintainers0 deps

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Health

safe to use

[email protected] is safe to use (health: 49/100)

Health breakdown0 – 100

10/25

maintenance

0/20

popularity

25/25

security

12/15

maturity

2/15

community

Vulnerabilities

none known

⚠ Possible typosquat

Name is close to a popular package. Targets:

pynacl (adjacent_swap_or_double dist 2)

Quality signals

OSS Criticality

0.53high

Download trend

stable(+4.6%)

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