Is grunt healthy, maintained, and safe?
Mostly yes — grunt is maintained, with a couple of watch-items rather than red flags.
The verdict
grunt earns a health score of 62/100, a low risk rating, computed deterministically from live npm release history, maintainer data, and the OSV vulnerability database. Mostly yes — grunt is maintained, with a couple of watch-items rather than red flags.
Its most recent release shipped on 28 July 2026 — 0 days ago — so development is clearly active. Across 73 releases the cadence has been steady, which is a good sign of an ongoing maintenance rhythm. 5 maintainers are listed on npm, so the project isn't hostage to any single contributor.
OSV lists 3 known advisories for grunt, 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.
A couple of watch-items aside, grunt is a reasonable dependency to rely on; keep an eye on the flagged signals. 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 (3)
Path Traversal in Grunt
Arbitrary Code Execution in grunt
Race Condition in Grunt
Key facts
- Latest version
- v1.6.3
- Last release
- 28 July 2026 (0 days ago)
- Total releases
- 73
- First release
- 12 January 2012
- Package age
- 14.6 years
- Maintainers
- 5
- Known advisories
- 3
- Confidence
- High
Frequently asked
Is grunt still maintained?
Yes — grunt released as recently as 28 July 2026 (0 days ago), so it is actively maintained.
Does grunt have known security vulnerabilities?
Yes — OSV lists 3 advisories for grunt. See the advisory list on this page for the OSV/GHSA identifiers.
Is grunt safe to use?
Mostly yes — grunt is maintained, with a couple of watch-items rather than red flags. OSPulse rates it 62/100 (low risk) based on release recency, cadence, maintainer bus factor and known vulnerabilities.
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Data from the npm registry & OSV.dev · snapshot generated 2026-07-28 · scores are deterministic and recomputed on each refresh.