Is google-auth safe to use?

google-auth has no known vulnerabilities on the latest version (2.56.3). DepScope rates its health at 67/100 (moderate risk).

What is the latest version of google-auth?

The latest version of google-auth is 2.56.3, released 2026-08-06.

Does google-auth have known vulnerabilities?

No known vulnerabilities on the latest version of google-auth.

Is google-auth deprecated?

No, google-auth is actively maintained. Latest release: 2.56.3 (2026-08-06).

What are alternatives to google-auth?

Popular alternatives to google-auth in PyPI include: packaging, certifi, typing_extensions, cryptography, aiobotocore.

What license does google-auth use?

google-auth is licensed under Apache 2.0.

google-auth

pypiv2.56.3

Google Authentication Library

License Apache 2.0permissive198 versions1 maintainers37 deps

googleapis/google-cloud-python/tree/main/packages/google-auth

/ 100

Health

use with caution

[email protected] low health (67/100) — consider alternatives

Moderate health score (67/100) — verify manually

Health breakdown0 – 100

25/25

maintenance

0/20

popularity

25/25

security

15/15

maturity

2/15

community

Vulnerabilities

none known

OSS Scorecard

OpenSSF security posture score

7.3/10

moderate

Maintainer trust

Active maintainers (3m)

1

Contributors (12m)

0

Primary author dominance

0%

GitHub stars

875

single active maintainer 3marchived repo

Quality signals

OSS Criticality

0.78critical

Download trend

stable(+8.3%)

Publish security

API token

Health History

Dependency Tree

License Audit

API access

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curl https://depscope.dev/api/check/pypi/google-auth

google-auth

pypiv2.56.3

Google Authentication Library

License Apache 2.0permissive198 versions1 maintainers37 deps

googleapis/google-cloud-python/tree/main/packages/google-auth

/ 100

Health

use with caution

[email protected] low health (67/100) — consider alternatives

Moderate health score (67/100) — verify manually

Health breakdown0 – 100

25/25

maintenance

0/20

popularity

25/25

security

15/15

maturity

2/15

community

Vulnerabilities

none known

OSS Scorecard

OpenSSF security posture score

7.3/10

moderate

Maintainer trust

Active maintainers (3m)

1

Contributors (12m)

0

Primary author dominance

0%

GitHub stars

875

single active maintainer 3marchived repo

Quality signals

OSS Criticality

0.78critical

Download trend

stable(+8.3%)

Publish security

API token

Health History

Dependency Tree

License Audit

API access

Get this data programmatically — free, no authentication.

curl https://depscope.dev/api/check/pypi/google-auth