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about 2 hours
ago. based on code collected
about 2 hours
ago.
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Tags
analysis
detection
hids
intrusion
log
network
rootkit
security
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In a Nutshell, OSSEC...
...
has had
5,889 commits
made by
201 contributors
representing
148,720 lines of code
...
is
mostly written in C
with
an average number of source code comments
...
has
a well established, mature codebase
maintained by
a small development team
with
decreasing Y-O-Y commits
...
took an estimated
38 years of effort
(COCOMO model)
starting with its
first commit in September, 2005
ending with its
most recent commit 8 days
ago
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Code Locations:
https://github.com/ossec/ossec-hids
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jrossi
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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Code
Lines of Code
Activity
Commits per Month
Community
Contributors per Month
Languages
C
66%
XML
14%
HTML
6%
18 Other
14%
30 Day Summary
Feb 20 2026 — Mar 22 2026
1
Commit
1
Contributor
12 Month Summary
Mar 22 2025 — Mar 22 2026
2
Commits
Down
-13 (86%)
from previous 12 months
2
Contributors
Down
0 (0%)
from previous 12 months
Most Recent Contributors
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Scott R. Shinn
Dan Parriott
Tyler Hess
Alvaro Muñoz
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