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Project Summary

OpenSSL is a robust, commercial-grade, and full-featured toolkit for the Transport Layer Security (TLS) and Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocols. It is also a general-purpose cryptography library.

OpenSSL is licensed under an Apache-style license, which basically means that you are free to get and use it for commercial and non-commercial purposes subject to some simple license conditions.

Tags

c cryptography decryption perl secure secureconnection security sockets ssl tls transport

Project Security

Vulnerabilities per Version ( last 10 releases )

Project Vulnerability Report

Security Confidence Index

Poor security track-record
Favorable security track-record

Vulnerability Exposure Index

Many reported vulnerabilities
Few reported vulnerabilities

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About Project Security

Languages

C
62%
Perl
35%
13 Other
3%

30 Day Summary

Mar 26 2025 — Apr 25 2025

12 Month Summary

Apr 25 2024 — Apr 25 2025
  • 1780 Commits
    Down -471 (20%) from previous 12 months
  • 217 Contributors
    Up + 2 (0%) from previous 12 months

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Static Analysis ( Generated by Coverity Scan for openssl/openssl )

Repository URL: https://github.com/openssl/openssl

Version: 2025-04-25\ b637fbe

2025-04-25
Last Analyzed
649,354
Lines of Code Analyze
0.0
Defect Density

Defects by status for current build

1,836
Total defects
3
Outstanding
1,521
Fixed

CWE Top 25 defects

ID CWE-Name Number of Defects
131 Incorrect Calculation of Buffer Size 1
190 Integer Overflow or Wraparound 29
676 Use of Potentially Dangerous Function 20