Is brakeman safe to use?

brakeman has no known vulnerabilities on the latest version (8.0.4). DepScope rates its health at 76/100 (moderate risk).

What is the latest version of brakeman?

The latest version of brakeman is 8.0.4, released 2026-02-27.

Does brakeman have known vulnerabilities?

No known vulnerabilities on the latest version of brakeman.

Is brakeman deprecated?

No, brakeman is actively maintained. Latest release: 8.0.4 (2026-02-27).

What are alternatives to brakeman?

Popular alternatives to brakeman in RubyGems include: jmespath, netrc, thread_safe, crass, tzinfo.

What license does brakeman use?

brakeman is licensed under Brakeman Public Use License.

brakeman

rubygemsv8.0.4

Brakeman detects security vulnerabilities in Ruby on Rails applications via static analysis.

License Brakeman Public Use License20 versions1 deps5,459,710 weekly dl

presidentbeef/brakeman

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Health

safe to use

[email protected] is safe to use (health: 76/100)

Health breakdown0 – 100

20/25

maintenance

17/20

popularity

25/25

security

9/15

maturity

5/15

community

Vulnerabilities

none known

Maintainer trust

Active maintainers (3m)

3

Contributors (12m)

13

Primary author dominance

87%

GitHub stars

7,219

Quality signals

OSS Criticality

0.44medium

Health History

Dependency Tree

License Audit

Dependencies (1)

racc

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