Is getrandom safe to use?

getrandom has no known vulnerabilities on the latest version (0.4.3). DepScope rates its health at 85/100 (low risk).

What is the latest version of getrandom?

The latest version of getrandom is 0.4.3, released 2026-06-17.

Does getrandom have known vulnerabilities?

No known vulnerabilities on the latest version of getrandom.

Is getrandom deprecated?

No, getrandom is actively maintained. Latest release: 0.4.3 (2026-06-17).

What are alternatives to getrandom?

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

What license does getrandom use?

getrandom is licensed under MIT OR Apache-2.0.

getrandom

cargov0.4.3

A small cross-platform library for retrieving random data from system source

License MIT OR Apache-2.0permissive48 versions0 deps497,287,257 weekly dl

rust-random/getrandom

/ 100

Health

safe to use

[email protected] is safe to use (health: 85/100)

Health breakdown0 – 100

25/25

maintenance

20/20

popularity

25/25

security

12/15

maturity

3/15

community

0/15

popularity_floor

Vulnerabilities

none known

Maintainer trust

Active maintainers (3m)

2

Contributors (12m)

11

Primary author dominance

36%

GitHub stars

565

Quality signals

OSS Criticality

0.78critical

Download trend

stable(+2.7%)

Health History

Dependency Tree

License Audit

API access

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getrandom

cargov0.4.3

A small cross-platform library for retrieving random data from system source

License MIT OR Apache-2.0permissive48 versions0 deps497,287,257 weekly dl

rust-random/getrandom

/ 100

Health

safe to use

[email protected] is safe to use (health: 85/100)

Health breakdown0 – 100

25/25

maintenance

20/20

popularity

25/25

security

12/15

maturity

3/15

community

0/15

popularity_floor

Vulnerabilities

none known

Maintainer trust

Active maintainers (3m)

2

Contributors (12m)

11

Primary author dominance

36%

GitHub stars

565

Quality signals

OSS Criticality

0.78critical

Download trend

stable(+2.7%)

Health History

Dependency Tree

License Audit

API access

Get this data programmatically — free, no authentication.

curl https://depscope.dev/api/check/cargo/getrandom