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OpenSSF Scorecard report

3.8

Overall Score

10/10 Critical Risk
24/60 High Risk
0/40 Medium Risk
10/20 Low Risk
Generated on August 11, 2025 | Scorecard vv5.2.1-40-gf6ed084d
Security Checks
10/10
Binary-Artifacts
High Risk

no binaries found in the repo

Determines if the project has generated executable (binary) artifacts in the source repository.

10/10
Dangerous-Workflow
Critical Risk

no dangerous workflow patterns detected

Determines if the project's GitHub Action workflows avoid dangerous patterns.

10/10
License
Low Risk

license file detected

Determines if the project has defined a license.

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ℹ️ Info: project has a license file: LICENSE:0
ℹ️ Info: FSF or OSI recognized license: BSD 2-Clause "Simplified" License: LICENSE:0
10/10
Vulnerabilities
High Risk

0 existing vulnerabilities detected

Determines if the project has open, known unfixed vulnerabilities.

4/10
Maintained
High Risk

5 commit(s) and 0 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 4

Determines if the project is "actively maintained".

0/10
Branch-Protection
High Risk

branch protection not enabled on development/release branches

Determines if the default and release branches are protected with GitHub's branch protection settings.

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⚠️ Warn: branch protection not enabled for branch 'main'
0/10
CII-Best-Practices
Low Risk

no effort to earn an OpenSSF best practices badge detected

Determines if the project has an OpenSSF (formerly CII) Best Practices Badge.

0/10
Code-Review
High Risk

Found 0/30 approved changesets -- score normalized to 0

Determines if the project requires human code review before pull requests (aka merge requests) are merged.

0/10
Fuzzing
Medium Risk

project is not fuzzed

Determines if the project uses fuzzing.

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⚠️ Warn: no fuzzer integrations found
0/10
Pinned-Dependencies
Medium Risk

dependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 0

Determines if the project has declared and pinned the dependencies of its build process.

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ℹ️ Info: Possibly incomplete results: error parsing shell code: "foo(" must be followed by ): .github/workflows/build.yml:101
⚠️ Warn: GitHub-owned GitHubAction not pinned by hash: .github/workflows/build.yml:14: update your workflow using https://app.stepsecurity.io/secureworkflow/ScientificDataFormat/SDF-Python/build.yml/main?enable=pin
⚠️ Warn: third-party GitHubAction not pinned by hash: .github/workflows/build.yml:15: update your workflow using https://app.stepsecurity.io/secureworkflow/ScientificDataFormat/SDF-Python/build.yml/main?enable=pin
⚠️ Warn: GitHub-owned GitHubAction not pinned by hash: .github/workflows/build.yml:38: update your workflow using https://app.stepsecurity.io/secureworkflow/ScientificDataFormat/SDF-Python/build.yml/main?enable=pin
⚠️ Warn: GitHub-owned GitHubAction not pinned by hash: .github/workflows/build.yml:45: update your workflow using https://app.stepsecurity.io/secureworkflow/ScientificDataFormat/SDF-Python/build.yml/main?enable=pin
⚠️ Warn: third-party GitHubAction not pinned by hash: .github/workflows/build.yml:54: update your workflow using https://app.stepsecurity.io/secureworkflow/ScientificDataFormat/SDF-Python/build.yml/main?enable=pin
⚠️ Warn: GitHub-owned GitHubAction not pinned by hash: .github/workflows/build.yml:55: update your workflow using https://app.stepsecurity.io/secureworkflow/ScientificDataFormat/SDF-Python/build.yml/main?enable=pin
⚠️ Warn: GitHub-owned GitHubAction not pinned by hash: .github/workflows/build.yml:56: update your workflow using https://app.stepsecurity.io/secureworkflow/ScientificDataFormat/SDF-Python/build.yml/main?enable=pin
⚠️ Warn: GitHub-owned GitHubAction not pinned by hash: .github/workflows/build.yml:60: update your workflow using https://app.stepsecurity.io/secureworkflow/ScientificDataFormat/SDF-Python/build.yml/main?enable=pin
⚠️ Warn: GitHub-owned GitHubAction not pinned by hash: .github/workflows/build.yml:61: update your workflow using https://app.stepsecurity.io/secureworkflow/ScientificDataFormat/SDF-Python/build.yml/main?enable=pin
⚠️ Warn: GitHub-owned GitHubAction not pinned by hash: .github/workflows/build.yml:65: update your workflow using https://app.stepsecurity.io/secureworkflow/ScientificDataFormat/SDF-Python/build.yml/main?enable=pin
⚠️ Warn: GitHub-owned GitHubAction not pinned by hash: .github/workflows/build.yml:69: update your workflow using https://app.stepsecurity.io/secureworkflow/ScientificDataFormat/SDF-Python/build.yml/main?enable=pin
⚠️ Warn: GitHub-owned GitHubAction not pinned by hash: .github/workflows/build.yml:74: update your workflow using https://app.stepsecurity.io/secureworkflow/ScientificDataFormat/SDF-Python/build.yml/main?enable=pin
⚠️ Warn: GitHub-owned GitHubAction not pinned by hash: .github/workflows/build.yml:94: update your workflow using https://app.stepsecurity.io/secureworkflow/ScientificDataFormat/SDF-Python/build.yml/main?enable=pin
⚠️ Warn: third-party GitHubAction not pinned by hash: .github/workflows/build.yml:96: update your workflow using https://app.stepsecurity.io/secureworkflow/ScientificDataFormat/SDF-Python/build.yml/main?enable=pin
⚠️ Warn: GitHub-owned GitHubAction not pinned by hash: .github/workflows/build.yml:97: update your workflow using https://app.stepsecurity.io/secureworkflow/ScientificDataFormat/SDF-Python/build.yml/main?enable=pin
ℹ️ Info: 0 out of 12 GitHub-owned GitHubAction dependencies pinned
ℹ️ Info: 0 out of 3 third-party GitHubAction dependencies pinned
0/10
SAST
Medium Risk

SAST tool is not run on all commits -- score normalized to 0

Determines if the project uses static code analysis.

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⚠️ Warn: 0 commits out of 1 are checked with a SAST tool
0/10
Security-Policy
Medium Risk

security policy file not detected

Determines if the project has published a security policy.

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⚠️ Warn: no security policy file detected
⚠️ Warn: no security file to analyze
⚠️ Warn: no security file to analyze
⚠️ Warn: no security file to analyze
0/10
Token-Permissions
High Risk

detected GitHub workflow tokens with excessive permissions

Determines if the project's workflows follow the principle of least privilege.

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⚠️ Warn: no topLevel permission defined: .github/workflows/build.yml:1
ℹ️ Info: no jobLevel write permissions found
N/A
Packaging
Not Applicable

packaging workflow not detected

Determines if the project is published as a package that others can easily download, install, easily update, and uninstall.

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⚠️ Warn: no GitHub/GitLab publishing workflow detected.
N/A
Signed-Releases
Not Applicable

no releases found

Determines if the project cryptographically signs release artifacts.

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Repository Details
  • Stars 26
  • Forks 5
  • Open issues 1
  • License bsd-2-clause
  • Language Python
  • Size 861 KB
  • Created at almost 9 years ago
  • Updated at 11 months ago
  • Pushed at 11 months ago
  • Last synced at 6 months ago
  • Dependencies parsed at Pending