Is urllib3 safe to use?

urllib3 has no known vulnerabilities on the latest version (2.6.3). DepScope rates its health at 75/100 (moderate risk).

What is the latest version of urllib3?

The latest version of urllib3 is 2.6.3, released 2026-01-07.

Does urllib3 have known vulnerabilities?

No known vulnerabilities on the latest version of urllib3.

Is urllib3 deprecated?

No, urllib3 is actively maintained. Latest release: 2.6.3 (2026-01-07).

What are alternatives to urllib3?

Popular alternatives to urllib3 in PyPI include: boto3, packaging, idna, requests, typing-extensions.

urllib3

pypiv2.6.3

HTTP library with thread-safe connection pooling, file post, and more.

License MITpermissive107 versions5 deps360,756,342 weekly dl

urllib3/urllib3

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Health

safe to use

[email protected] is safe to use (health: 75/100)

Health breakdown0 – 100

15/25

maintenance

20/20

popularity

25/25

security

15/15

maturity

0/15

community

Vulnerabilities

none known

Maintainer trust

Active maintainers (3m)

9

Contributors (12m)

27

Primary author dominance

34%

GitHub stars

4,017

Quality signals

OSS Criticality

0.53high

Download trend

stable(0%)

Health History

Dependency Tree

License Audit

Dependencies (5)

brotli brotlicffi h2 pysocks backports-zstd

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