Is shell-words safe to use?

shell-words has no known vulnerabilities on the latest version (1.1.1). DepScope rates its health at 72/100 (moderate risk).

What is the latest version of shell-words?

The latest version of shell-words is 1.1.1, released 2025-12-10.

No known vulnerabilities on the latest version of shell-words.

No, shell-words is actively maintained. Latest release: 1.1.1 (2025-12-10).

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

shell-words is licensed under MIT/Apache-2.0.

cargov1.1.1

Process command line according to parsing rules of UNIX shell

License MIT/Apache-2.0permissive4 versions0 deps22,735,652 weekly dl

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Health

safe to use

[email protected] is safe to use (health: 72/100)

Health breakdown0 – 100

15/25

maintenance

20/20

popularity

25/25

security

12/15

maturity

0/15

community

Vulnerabilities

none known

OSS Scorecard

OpenSSF security posture score

2.5/10

poor

Maintainer trust

Active maintainers (3m)

1

Contributors (12m)

1

Primary author dominance

100%

GitHub stars

80

single active maintainer 3msingle author dominance

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