Is rencode safe to use?

rencode has 1 known vulnerabilities on the latest version (1.0.8). DepScope rates its health at 46/100 (high risk).

What is the latest version of rencode?

The latest version of rencode is 1.0.8, released 2025-05-29.

Does rencode have known vulnerabilities?

Yes. rencode has 1 known vulnerabilities. See depscope.dev/pkg/pypi/rencode for details.

Is rencode deprecated?

No, rencode is actively maintained. Latest release: 1.0.8 (2025-05-29).

What are alternatives to rencode?

Popular alternatives to rencode in PyPI include: boto3, packaging, idna, certifi, urllib3.

What license does rencode use?

rencode is licensed under GPLv3.

rencode

pypiv1.0.8

rencode is an object serialization library similar to bencode from the Bittorrent project.

License GPLv3strong copyleft6 versions1 maintainers0 deps520 weekly dl

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Health

use with caution

[email protected] low health (46/100) — consider alternatives

Update to >= 572ff74586d9b1daab904c6f7f7009ce0143bb75 to fix known vulnerabilities

Moderate health score (46/100) — verify manually

Health breakdown0 – 100

10/25

maintenance

3/20

popularity

25/25

security

6/15

maturity

2/15

community

Vulnerabilities

1 low

Advisories (1)

Severity	ID	Summary	Fixed in
unknown	CVE-2021-40839	The rencode package through 1.0.6 for Python allows an infinite loop in typecode decoding (such as via ;\x2f\x7f), enabling a remote attack that consumes CPU and memory.	572ff74586d9b1daab904c6f7f7009ce0143bb75

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