rand has no known vulnerabilities on the latest version (0.8.6). DepScope rates its health at 90/100 (low risk).

What is the latest version of rand?

The latest version of rand is 0.8.6, released 2026-04-17.

Does rand have known vulnerabilities?

No known vulnerabilities on the latest version of rand.

No, rand is actively maintained. Latest release: 0.8.6 (2026-04-17).

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

rand is licensed under MIT OR Apache-2.0.

cargov0.8.6

Random number generators and other randomness functionality.

License MIT OR Apache-2.0permissive89 versions0 deps231,999,356 weekly dl

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Health

safe to use

[email protected] is safe to use (health: 90/100)

Health breakdown0 – 100

25/25

maintenance

20/20

popularity

25/25

security

15/15

maturity

5/15

community

Vulnerabilities

none known

OSS Scorecard

OpenSSF security posture score

6.1/10

moderate

Maintainer trust

Active maintainers (3m)

7

Contributors (12m)

8

Primary author dominance

71%

GitHub stars

2,025

Quality signals

OSS Criticality

0.78critical

Download trend

stable(0%)

API access

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