Is brace-expansion safe to use?

brace-expansion has no known vulnerabilities on the latest version (5.0.9). DepScope rates its health at 91/100 (low risk).

What is the latest version of brace-expansion?

The latest version of brace-expansion is 5.0.9, released 2026-07-30.

Does brace-expansion have known vulnerabilities?

No known vulnerabilities on the latest version of brace-expansion.

Is brace-expansion deprecated?

No, brace-expansion is actively maintained. Latest release: 5.0.9 (2026-07-30).

What are alternatives to brace-expansion?

Popular alternatives to brace-expansion in npm include: ?, semver, minimatch, debug, ansi-styles.

What license does brace-expansion use?

brace-expansion is licensed under MIT.

brace-expansion

npmv5.0.9

Brace expansion as known from sh/bash

License MITpermissive48 versions2 maintainers1 deps606,369,394 weekly dl

juliangruber/brace-expansion

/ 100

Health

safe to use

[email protected] is safe to use (health: 91/100)

Health breakdown0 – 100

25/25

maintenance

20/20

popularity

25/25

security

15/15

maturity

6/15

community

0/15

popularity_floor

Vulnerabilities

none known

Bundle & TypeScript

🌟

TypeScript

10/10typed

bundled

OSS Scorecard

OpenSSF security posture score

6.3/10

moderate

Maintainer trust

Active maintainers (3m)

6

Contributors (12m)

8

Primary author dominance

42%

GitHub stars

230

Quality signals

OSS Criticality

0.80critical

Download trend

stable(+2.7%)

Publish security

npm signed

Health History

Dependency Tree

License Audit

Dependencies (1)

balanced-match

API access

Get this data programmatically — free, no authentication.

curl https://depscope.dev/api/check/npm/brace-expansion

brace-expansion

npmv5.0.9

Brace expansion as known from sh/bash

License MITpermissive48 versions2 maintainers1 deps606,369,394 weekly dl

juliangruber/brace-expansion

/ 100

Health

safe to use

[email protected] is safe to use (health: 91/100)

Health breakdown0 – 100

25/25

maintenance

20/20

popularity

25/25

security

15/15

maturity

6/15

community

0/15

popularity_floor

Vulnerabilities

none known

Bundle & TypeScript

🌟

TypeScript

10/10typed

bundled

OSS Scorecard

OpenSSF security posture score

6.3/10

moderate

Maintainer trust

Active maintainers (3m)

6

Contributors (12m)

8

Primary author dominance

42%

GitHub stars

230

Quality signals

OSS Criticality

0.80critical

Download trend

stable(+2.7%)

Publish security

npm signed

Health History

Dependency Tree

License Audit

Dependencies (1)

balanced-match

API access

Get this data programmatically — free, no authentication.

curl https://depscope.dev/api/check/npm/brace-expansion