Software health reportschema 0.27.0 · metrics 2.10.0 · 2026-07-31 13:20 UTC

ehsandeep / nuclei

Fast and customizable vulnerability scanner based on simple YAML based DSL.

GoMIT★ 1 star⑂ 1 forksince May 2023forkView on GitHub ↗

KindNetwork servicehow this is determined

ehsandeep/nuclei holds a health index of 24 out of 100, placing it in the At Risk band. It scores highest on AI Readiness (59/100) and lowest on Community & Adoption (12/100). It was last updated 1146 days ago. 2 contributors account for most of its recent work.

overall / 100

At Risk

Software health index

Metrics are grouped into weighted categories on one standardized 1–100 scale. Overall starts as their weighted mean, calibrated against the distribution of the public record so bands carry percentile meaning; when public evidence triggers the High-Risk Jurisdiction Policy, the rating is adjusted and receives an At Risk ceiling of 34.

Exceptional93-100The record's top tier (≈ top 5%); essentially all checked criteria met

Excellent80-92Strong across the board; minor gaps

Good65-79Healthy; gaps are limited and manageable

Moderate50-64Acceptable with notable gaps; review recommended

Weak35-49Material weaknesses across several areas

At Risk20-34Significant weaknesses; adoption warrants caution

Critical1-19Severe problems (abandoned, single-maintainer, no hygiene)

Score profile

Each axis is a category. The shape matters more than the average — a healthy subject fills the whole shape, while a spike-and-crater profile means strength in one dimension is masking risk in another.

The weighted overall 34 is calibrated to 28 on the published index scale (record calibration 2026-08-02).

Ownership

Sandeep SinghPersonal account

1,907 followers80 public repossince Jul 2014@projectdiscovery

This repository is owned by a personal account. A single-owner project carries more continuity risk than an organization-backed one.

Package ecosystems

Registry	Package	Version	Downloads / mo	Versions	Last publish
Go	github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2points to another repo — not scored	v2.9.15	-	77	1048 days ago

Metrics by category

Vitality

Is the project alive — is code being written and are releases shipping?

20At Risk · 21% of overall

Development activity

1Critical

Abandonment alert

Work has arrived and nobody has attended to it

no human commit in 1168 daysautomated commits excludedreleases stalledOpenSSF Scorecard reports it unmaintained

Silence alone is never the finding — a small, finished library may need no commits for years. This alert requires both: no human commit for a long time, and obligations the project is visibly not discharging. Automated commits do not count as maintenance.

How abandonment is assessed

How it's scored

0/36	Push recency — last push 1,146 days ago
0/36	Commit cadence — 0/52 weeks with commits
0/18	Commit volume — 0 commits in the last year
0/10	OpenSSF Scorecard: Maintained — 0 commit(s) and 0 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 0

Inputs used

commits_last_year	0
human_commit_share	0.7
days_since_last_push	1,146
active_weeks_last_year	0

Release discipline

48Weak

How it's scored

16.2/27	Ships releases — 75 version tags (no GitHub releases)
0/36	Release recency — latest release 1,176 days ago
27/27	Release cadence — a release every ~14.2 days
0/10	OpenSSF Scorecard: Signed-Releases — no data

Inputs used

releases_count	75
latest_release_tag	v2.9.4
releases_from_tags	yes
days_since_latest_release	1,176
mean_days_between_releases	14.2

Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): OpenSSF Scorecard: Signed-Releases. Remaining weights renormalized.

Community & Adoption

Does the project have users, downloads, attention, and a welcoming setup for contributors?

12Critical · 17% of overall

Popularity & adoption

1Critical

How it's scored

0/60	Stars — 1 stars
0/25	Forks — 1 forks
0/15	Watchers — 0 watchers

Inputs used

forks	1
stars	1
watchers	0
growth_state	unverified
growth_factor_pct	100
growth_unverified_reason	no_history

Community health

25At Risk

How it's scored

0/22.5	README
22.5/22.5	License — recognized license (MIT)
0/18	CONTRIBUTING guide
0/13.5	Code of conduct
0/7.2	Issue template
0/6.3	PR template

Inputs used

has_readme	no
has_license	no
readme_badges	—
has_contributing	no
has_issue_template	no
has_code_of_conduct	no
readme_badge_services	—
has_pull_request_template	no

Sustainability & Governance

Will the project survive its people — bus factor, responsiveness, who backs it, and package upkeep?

48Weak · 23% of overall

Maintainer resilience (bus factor)

65Good

How it's scored

25.2/54	Bus factor — 2 contributor(s) cover half of all commits
16/22.5	Commit distribution — top contributor authored 29% of commits
13.5/13.5	Contributor breadth — 99 contributors
10/10	OpenSSF Scorecard: Contributors — project has 24 contributing companies or organizations

Inputs used

bus_factor	2
contributors_sampled	99
top_contributor_share	0.287

Issue & PR responsiveness

1Critical

How it's scored

0/42	Issue resolution — no issues or no data
0/30	PR acceptance — no decided pull requests or no data
0/13	Newcomer PR acceptance — no first-time contributor's PR decided in 30d
0/15	OpenSSF Scorecard: Code-Review — Found 0/30 approved changesets -- score normalized to 0

Inputs used

merged_prs	0
open_issues	0
closed_issues	0
prs_merged_7d	—
prs_decided_7d	—
prs_merged_30d	—
prs_decided_30d	—
issue_closed_ratio	—
closed_unmerged_prs	0
first_time_authors_30d	—
first_time_prs_merged_30d	—
first_time_prs_decided_30d	—

Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Issue resolution, PR acceptance, Newcomer PR acceptance. Remaining weights renormalized.

Ownership & stewardship

73Good

How it's scored

10/30	Ownership backing — personal (user) account
0/20	Verified domain — not applicable to user accounts
23.6/25	Owner reach — 1,907 followers of ehsandeep
25/25	Track record — 80 public repos, account ~12 yr old

Inputs used

followers	1,907
owner_type	User
is_verified	—
owner_login	ehsandeep
public_repos	80
account_age_days	4,385

Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Verified domain. Remaining weights renormalized.

Engineering Quality

Are baseline engineering and documentation practices in place?

42Weak · 19% of overall

Engineering practices

60Moderate

How it's scored

24/24	CI workflows — 8 workflow(s)
24/24	Tests present
0/16	Linter config
0/9.6	Pre-commit hooks
0/6.4	.editorconfig
0/20	OpenSSF Scorecard: CI-Tests — no data

Inputs used

has_ci	yes
has_tests	yes
has_editorconfig	no
has_linter_config	no
has_precommit_config	no

Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): OpenSSF Scorecard: CI-Tests. Remaining weights renormalized.

Documentation

15Critical

How it's scored

0/30	README
0/25	Documentation directory
15/15	Documentation / homepage site — https://nuclei.projectdiscovery.io
0/10	Repository description
0/10	Topics
0/10	Wiki

Inputs used

topics	—
has_wiki	no
homepage	https://nuclei.projectdiscovery.io
docs_site	https://nuclei.projectdiscovery.io
has_readme	no
has_docs_dir	no
has_description	no

Security

Are visible security and supply-chain practices strong, without unresolved high-risk jurisdiction exposure?

39Weak · 16% of overall

Security posture

39Weak

How it's scored

7.5/7.5	Binary-Artifacts — no binaries found in the repo
0/7.5	Branch-Protection — branch protection not enabled on development/release branches
0/2.5	CI-Tests — no data
0/2.5	CII-Best-Practices — no effort to earn an OpenSSF best practices badge detected
0/7.5	Code-Review — Found 0/30 approved changesets -- score normalized to 0
2.5/2.5	Contributors — project has 24 contributing companies or organizations
10/10	Dangerous-Workflow — no dangerous workflow patterns detected
7.5/7.5	Dependency-Update-Tool — update tool detected
0/5	Fuzzing — project is not fuzzed
2.5/2.5	License — license file detected
0/7.5	Maintained — 0 commit(s) and 0 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 0
0/5	Packaging — no data
0/5	Pinned-Dependencies — dependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 0
5/5	SAST — SAST tool detected: CodeQL
0/5	Security-Policy — security policy file not detected
0/7.5	Signed-Releases — no data
0/7.5	Token-Permissions — detected GitHub workflow tokens with excessive permissions
0/7.5	Vulnerabilities — 72 existing vulnerabilities detected

Inputs used

source	openssf_scorecard
checks_evaluated	15
scorecard_version	v5.5.0
checks_inconclusive	3
scorecard_aggregate	3.9

Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): CI-Tests, Packaging, Signed-Releases. Remaining weights renormalized.

AI Readiness

How well is the repo equipped to be developed and maintained with AI coding agents? Carries a deliberately small weight (4%): agent tooling is a real maintenance signal, but a repository with none can still reach 100/100.

59Moderate · 4% of overall

Agent context & guidance

35Weak

How it's scored

0/45	Agent instructions — no CLAUDE.md / AGENTS.md / editor rules
0/15	Machine-readable docs (llms.txt)
35/40	Legible commit history — 46 of 70 human commits state their intent (structured subject or explanatory body)

Inputs used

has_llms_txt	no
llms_txt_url	—
legible_history_share	0.657
agent_instruction_files	—
agent_instruction_max_bytes	—

Verify loop (build / test / typecheck)

69Good

How it's scored

18/18	One-command bootstrap — v2/Makefile
22/22	Automated tests
0/11	Lint / format config
11/11	Static type checking — Go (statically typed)
10/10	Reproducible environment — Dockerfile, lockfile
0/10	Demonstrated agent practice — no agent-authored commits among the last 100
8/8	Automated maintenance — 30 of the last 100 commits are automated dependency updates
0/10	OpenSSF Scorecard: Pinned-Dependencies — dependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 0

Inputs used

has_nix	no
has_tests	yes
lockfiles	go.sum
has_dockerfile	yes
typed_language	yes
bootstrap_files	v2/Makefile
has_devcontainer	no
has_linter_config	no
typecheck_configs	—
agent_commit_share	0
toolchain_manifests	v2/go.mod
dependency_bot_commit_share	0.3

Code legibility for models

100Exceptional

How it's scored

45/45	Type-checkable code — Go (statically typed)
54.8/55	Manageable file sizes — 1/336 source files over 60KB

Inputs used

primary_language	Go
largest_source_bytes	77,183
source_files_sampled	336
oversized_source_files	1

Machine-readable interfaces

40Weak

How it's scored

0/40	API schema (OpenAPI/GraphQL/proto)
0/20	MCP server
40/40	Runnable examples — examples

Inputs used

example_dirs	examples
has_mcp_signal	no
api_schema_files	—
interfaces_expected_of	network-service

Key facts

1GitHub stars

99contributors

0commits, last 12 months

1,146days since last push

75releases

2bus factor

0open issues

Gopackage ecosystems

Data collection warnings

Star history unavailable: GitHub GraphQL error: Resource not accessible by personal access token
Community profile unavailable
go package 'github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v2' points at a different repository (https://github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei); excluded from ecosystem scoring
GitHub dependency-graph SBOM unavailable (404); the dependency graph may be disabled for this repository

More detail

OpenSSF Scorecard 3.9 / 10

3.9aggregate

Independent, tool-agnostic security assessment from the open-source OpenSSF Scorecard. Each check rewards a security practice, not a specific vendor's tool. Checks Scorecard could not determine are marked n/a and excluded from the security score (never counted as zero).Scorecard v5.5.0 · 2026-07-31 13:20 UTC

10	Binary-Artifacts	no binaries found in the repo
0	Branch-Protection	branch protection not enabled on development/release branches
n/a	CI-Tests	no pull request found
0	CII-Best-Practices	no effort to earn an OpenSSF best practices badge detected
0	Code-Review	Found 0/30 approved changesets -- score normalized to 0
10	Contributors	project has 24 contributing companies or organizations
10	Dangerous-Workflow	no dangerous workflow patterns detected
10	Dependency-Update-Tool	update tool detected
0	Fuzzing	project is not fuzzed
10	License	license file detected
0	Maintained	0 commit(s) and 0 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 0
n/a	Packaging	packaging workflow not detected
0	Pinned-Dependencies	dependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 0
10	SAST	SAST tool detected: CodeQL
0	Security-Policy	security policy file not detected
n/a	Signed-Releases	no releases found
0	Token-Permissions	detected GitHub workflow tokens with excessive permissions
0	Vulnerabilities	72 existing vulnerabilities detected

Direct dependencies 80

Registry	Package	Version constraint	Manifest
Go	github.com/Knetic/govaluate	`v3.0.1-0.20171022003610-9aa49832a739+incompatible`	v2/go.mod
Go	github.com/alecthomas/jsonschema	`v0.0.0-20211022214203-8b29eab41725`	v2/go.mod
Go	github.com/andygrunwald/go-jira	`v1.16.0`	v2/go.mod
Go	github.com/antchfx/htmlquery	`v1.3.0`	v2/go.mod
Go	github.com/bluele/gcache	`v0.0.2`	v2/go.mod
Go	github.com/corpix/uarand	`v0.2.0`	v2/go.mod
Go	github.com/go-playground/validator/v10	`v10.11.2`	v2/go.mod
Go	github.com/go-rod/rod	`v0.113.0`	v2/go.mod
Go	github.com/gobwas/ws	`v1.2.1`	v2/go.mod
Go	github.com/google/go-github	`v17.0.0+incompatible`	v2/go.mod
Go	github.com/itchyny/gojq	`v0.12.12`	v2/go.mod
Go	github.com/json-iterator/go	`v1.1.12`	v2/go.mod
Go	github.com/julienschmidt/httprouter	`v1.3.0`	v2/go.mod
Go	github.com/logrusorgru/aurora	`v2.0.3+incompatible`	v2/go.mod
Go	github.com/miekg/dns	`v1.1.54`	v2/go.mod
Go	github.com/olekukonko/tablewriter	`v0.0.5`	v2/go.mod
Go	github.com/pkg/errors	`v0.9.1`	v2/go.mod
Go	github.com/projectdiscovery/clistats	`v0.0.12`	v2/go.mod
Go	github.com/projectdiscovery/fastdialer	`v0.0.26`	v2/go.mod
Go	github.com/projectdiscovery/hmap	`v0.0.11`	v2/go.mod
Go	github.com/projectdiscovery/interactsh	`v1.1.4`	v2/go.mod
Go	github.com/projectdiscovery/rawhttp	`v0.1.11`	v2/go.mod
Go	github.com/projectdiscovery/retryabledns	`v1.0.24`	v2/go.mod
Go	github.com/projectdiscovery/retryablehttp-go	`v1.0.17`	v2/go.mod
Go	github.com/projectdiscovery/yamldoc-go	`v1.0.4`	v2/go.mod
Go	github.com/remeh/sizedwaitgroup	`v1.0.0`	v2/go.mod
Go	github.com/rs/xid	`v1.5.0`	v2/go.mod
Go	github.com/segmentio/ksuid	`v1.0.4`	v2/go.mod
Go	github.com/spf13/cast	`v1.5.0`	v2/go.mod
Go	github.com/syndtr/goleveldb	`v1.0.0`	v2/go.mod
Go	github.com/valyala/fasttemplate	`v1.2.2`	v2/go.mod
Go	github.com/weppos/publicsuffix-go	`v0.30.1-0.20230422193905-8fecedd899db`	v2/go.mod
Go	github.com/xanzy/go-gitlab	`v0.83.0`	v2/go.mod
Go	go.uber.org/multierr	`v1.11.0`	v2/go.mod
Go	golang.org/x/net	`v0.10.0`	v2/go.mod
Go	golang.org/x/oauth2	`v0.8.0`	v2/go.mod
Go	golang.org/x/text	`v0.9.0`	v2/go.mod
Go	gopkg.in/yaml.v2	`v2.4.0`	v2/go.mod
Go	moul.io/http2curl	`v1.0.0`	v2/go.mod
Go	github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-go/sdk/azidentity	`v1.3.0`	v2/go.mod
Go	github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-go/sdk/storage/azblob	`v1.0.0`	v2/go.mod
Go	github.com/DataDog/gostackparse	`v0.6.0`	v2/go.mod
Go	github.com/Masterminds/semver/v3	`v3.2.1`	v2/go.mod
Go	github.com/Mzack9999/gcache	`v0.0.0-20230410081825-519e28eab057`	v2/go.mod
Go	github.com/antchfx/xmlquery	`v1.3.15`	v2/go.mod
Go	github.com/asaskevich/govalidator	`v0.0.0-20230301143203-a9d515a09cc2`	v2/go.mod
Go	github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2	`v1.18.0`	v2/go.mod
Go	github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/config	`v1.18.25`	v2/go.mod
Go	github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/credentials	`v1.13.24`	v2/go.mod
Go	github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/feature/s3/manager	`v1.11.67`	v2/go.mod
Go	github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/service/s3	`v1.33.1`	v2/go.mod
Go	github.com/docker/go-units	`v0.5.0`	v2/go.mod
Go	github.com/fatih/structs	`v1.1.0`	v2/go.mod
Go	github.com/go-git/go-git/v5	`v5.6.1`	v2/go.mod
Go	github.com/h2non/filetype	`v1.1.3`	v2/go.mod
Go	github.com/klauspost/compress	`v1.16.5`	v2/go.mod
Go	github.com/labstack/echo/v4	`v4.10.2`	v2/go.mod
Go	github.com/mholt/archiver	`v3.1.1+incompatible`	v2/go.mod
Go	github.com/projectdiscovery/dsl	`v0.0.9`	v2/go.mod
Go	github.com/projectdiscovery/fasttemplate	`v0.0.2`	v2/go.mod
Go	github.com/projectdiscovery/goflags	`v0.1.8`	v2/go.mod
Go	github.com/projectdiscovery/gologger	`v1.1.10`	v2/go.mod
Go	github.com/projectdiscovery/httpx	`v1.3.1`	v2/go.mod
Go	github.com/projectdiscovery/mapcidr	`v1.1.2`	v2/go.mod
Go	github.com/projectdiscovery/nvd	`v1.0.10-0.20230327073015-721181aba1e8`	v2/go.mod
Go	github.com/projectdiscovery/ratelimit	`v0.0.8`	v2/go.mod
Go	github.com/projectdiscovery/rdap	`v0.9.1-0.20221108103045-9865884d1917`	v2/go.mod
Go	github.com/projectdiscovery/sarif	`v0.0.1`	v2/go.mod
Go	github.com/projectdiscovery/tlsx	`v1.0.9`	v2/go.mod
Go	github.com/projectdiscovery/uncover	`v1.0.6-0.20230601103158-bfd7e02a5bb1`	v2/go.mod
Go	github.com/projectdiscovery/utils	`v0.0.34`	v2/go.mod
Go	github.com/projectdiscovery/wappalyzergo	`v0.0.94`	v2/go.mod
Go	github.com/stretchr/testify	`v1.8.3`	v2/go.mod
Go	gopkg.in/src-d/go-git.v4	`v4.13.1`	v2/go.mod
Go	gopkg.in/yaml.v3	`v3.0.1`	v2/go.mod
Go	github.com/projectdiscovery/networkpolicy	`v0.0.6`	v2/go.mod
Go	github.com/trivago/tgo	`v1.0.7`	v2/go.mod
Go	golang.org/x/crypto	`v0.9.0`	v2/go.mod
Go	golang.org/x/exp	`v0.0.0-20230420155640-133eef4313cb`	v2/go.mod
Go	github.com/alecthomas/chroma	`v0.10.0`	v2/go.mod

All dependencies not collected

The resolved dependency set could not be collected for this report: GitHub dependency-graph SBOM unavailable (404); the dependency graph may be disabled for this repository

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Scores are signals, not warranties. They reflect publicly visible practices on GitHub — not a code audit, and not a security guarantee.

Missing data is excluded and weights renormalized, never scored as zero. Methodology is versioned and open: metrics v2.10.0, schema v0.27.0 — full methodology · metrics wiki.

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