Is colors healthy, maintained, and safe?
No — colors looks abandoned and still has open security advisories.
The verdict
On the OSPulse health scale, colors lands at 0/100 — critical risk, computed deterministically from live npm release history, maintainer data, and the OSV vulnerability database. No — colors looks abandoned and still has open security advisories.
The last sign of life was 9 January 2022, more than 4 years ago (1701 days); by any practical measure the package looks abandoned. Historically it released far more frequently, so the current silence reads as a genuine collapse in velocity rather than a natural gap. Ownership rests on a single maintainer — a bus-factor of one, meaning one person's availability is a single point of failure for everyone downstream.
OSV lists 2 known advisories for colors, including 2 high. Review whether your version is in the affected range and whether a fixed release is available before depending on it. Each advisory is listed with its OSV/GHSA identifier below.
The safest reading is to replace, fork, or tightly pin colors and stop taking on new exposure to it. This is a one-time snapshot of a single package — real projects depend on dozens or hundreds of packages, and any one of them can drift or be compromised between releases. Run your own package.json through the free health check, or have OSPulse monitor your whole dependency tree continuously.
Evidence trail — deterministic, auditable
Known vulnerabilities (2)
Infinite loop causing Denial of Service in colors
Infinite Loop in colors.js
Key facts
- Latest version
- v1.4.0
- Last release
- 9 January 2022 (1701 days ago)
- Total releases
- 29
- First release
- 15 March 2011
- Package age
- 15.5 years
- Maintainers
- 1
- Known advisories
- 2
- Confidence
- High
Frequently asked
Is colors still maintained?
It doesn't appear to be — the last release was 9 January 2022, over two years ago, which usually indicates an abandoned package.
Does colors have known security vulnerabilities?
Yes — OSV lists 2 advisories for colors. See the advisory list on this page for the OSV/GHSA identifiers.
Is colors safe to use?
No — colors looks abandoned and still has open security advisories. OSPulse rates it 0/100 (critical risk) based on release recency, cadence, maintainer bus factor and known vulnerabilities.
Alternatives to colors
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Data from the npm registry & OSV.dev · snapshot generated 2026-09-07 · scores are deterministic and recomputed on each refresh.