Is execa safe to use?

execa has no known vulnerabilities on the latest version (9.6.1). DepScope rates its health at 83/100 (low risk).

What is the latest version of execa?

The latest version of execa is 9.6.1, released 2025-11-29.

Does execa have known vulnerabilities?

No known vulnerabilities on the latest version of execa.

No, execa is actively maintained. Latest release: 9.6.1 (2025-11-29).

What are alternatives to execa?

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

execa

npmv9.6.1

Process execution for humans

License MITpermissive64 versions2 maintainers12 deps129,359,849 weekly dl

sindresorhus/execa

/ 100

Health

safe to use

[email protected] is safe to use (health: 83/100)

Health breakdown0 – 100

15/25

maintenance

20/20

popularity

25/25

security

15/15

maturity

8/15

community

Vulnerabilities

none known

Bundle & TypeScript

🌟

TypeScript

10/10typed

bundled

OSS Scorecard

OpenSSF security posture score

4.3/10

weak

Maintainer trust

Active maintainers (3m)

1

Contributors (12m)

4

Primary author dominance

44%

GitHub stars

7,491

single active maintainer 3m

Quality signals

OSS Criticality

0.80critical

Download trend

stable(+2.1%)

Publish security

npm signed

Health History

Dependency Tree

License Audit

Dependencies (12)

@sindresorhus/merge-streams cross-spawn figures get-stream human-signals is-plain-obj is-stream npm-run-path pretty-ms signal-exit strip-final-newline yoctocolors

API access

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