Is aircrack-ng safe to use?

aircrack-ng has no known vulnerabilities on the latest version (1.7). DepScope rates its health at 59/100 (high risk).

What is the latest version of aircrack-ng?

The latest version of aircrack-ng is 1.7, released 2026-02-18.

Does aircrack-ng have known vulnerabilities?

No known vulnerabilities on the latest version of aircrack-ng.

Is aircrack-ng deprecated?

No, aircrack-ng is actively maintained. Latest release: 1.7 (2026-02-18).

What are alternatives to aircrack-ng?

DepScope has no curated alternatives for aircrack-ng at this time.

aircrack-ng

homebrewv1.7

Next-generation aircrack with lots of new features

License BSD-3-Clause AND GPL-2.0-or-later AND (GPL-2.0-or-later WITH cryptsetup-OpenSSL-exception)permissive1 versions1 maintainers7 deps156 weekly dl

59

/ 100

Health

use with caution

[email protected] low health (59/100) — consider alternatives

Moderate health score (59/100) — verify manually

Health breakdown0 – 100

20/25

maintenance

3/20

popularity

25/25

security

9/15

maturity

2/15

community

Vulnerabilities

0

none known

Health History

Dependency Tree

License Audit

Dependencies (7)

openssl@3 pcre2 sqlite autoconf automake libtool pkgconf

API access

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Last updated · 2026-02-18T15:45:09Z