Is c-ares safe to use?

c-ares has no known vulnerabilities on the latest version (12.0.0). DepScope rates its health at 65/100 (moderate risk).

What is the latest version of c-ares?

The latest version of c-ares is 12.0.0, released 2025-12-14.

No known vulnerabilities on the latest version of c-ares.

No, c-ares is actively maintained. Latest release: 12.0.0 (2025-12-14).

Popular alternatives to c-ares in Cargo include: hashbrown, getrandom, windows-sys, syn.

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A Rust wrapper for the c-ares library, for asynchronous DNS requests.

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Health

safe to use

[email protected] is safe to use (health: 65/100)

Health breakdown0 – 100

15/25

maintenance

10/20

popularity

25/25

security

15/15

maturity

0/15

community

Vulnerabilities

none known

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