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:book::microscope::coffee: BioJava is an open-source project dedicated to providing a Java library for processing biological data.

OpenSSF Scorecard report

5.5

Overall Score

10/10 Critical Risk
34/50 High Risk
4/40 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: GNU Lesser General Public License v2.1: LICENSE:0
10/10
Token-Permissions
High Risk

GitHub workflow tokens follow principle of least privilege

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

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ℹ️ Info: topLevel 'contents' permission set to 'read': .github/workflows/master.yml:9
ℹ️ Info: topLevel 'contents' permission set to 'read': .github/workflows/pull_request.yml:12
ℹ️ Info: no jobLevel write permissions found
10/10
Vulnerabilities
High Risk

0 existing vulnerabilities detected

Determines if the project has open, known unfixed vulnerabilities.

4/10
Code-Review
High Risk

Found 6/15 approved changesets -- score normalized to 4

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

4/10
Security-Policy
Medium Risk

security policy file detected

Determines if the project has published a security policy.

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ℹ️ Info: security policy file detected: SECURITY.md:1
⚠️ Warn: no linked content found
ℹ️ Info: Found disclosure, vulnerability, and/or timelines in security policy: SECURITY.md:1
ℹ️ Info: Found text in security policy: SECURITY.md:1
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
Fuzzing
Medium Risk

project is not fuzzed

Determines if the project uses fuzzing.

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⚠️ Warn: no fuzzer integrations found
0/10
Maintained
High Risk

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

Determines if the project is "actively maintained".

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: invalid parameter name: biojava-protein-comparison-tool/src/main/assembly/runCE.sh:0
ℹ️ Info: Possibly incomplete results: error parsing shell code: invalid parameter name: biojava-protein-comparison-tool/src/main/assembly/runCECP.sh:0
ℹ️ Info: Possibly incomplete results: error parsing shell code: invalid parameter name: biojava-protein-comparison-tool/src/main/assembly/runFATCAT.sh:0
⚠️ Warn: GitHub-owned GitHubAction not pinned by hash: .github/workflows/master.yml:25: update your workflow using https://app.stepsecurity.io/secureworkflow/biojava/biojava/master.yml/master?enable=pin
⚠️ Warn: GitHub-owned GitHubAction not pinned by hash: .github/workflows/master.yml:27: update your workflow using https://app.stepsecurity.io/secureworkflow/biojava/biojava/master.yml/master?enable=pin
⚠️ Warn: GitHub-owned GitHubAction not pinned by hash: .github/workflows/pull_request.yml:27: update your workflow using https://app.stepsecurity.io/secureworkflow/biojava/biojava/pull_request.yml/master?enable=pin
⚠️ Warn: GitHub-owned GitHubAction not pinned by hash: .github/workflows/pull_request.yml:29: update your workflow using https://app.stepsecurity.io/secureworkflow/biojava/biojava/pull_request.yml/master?enable=pin
⚠️ Warn: GitHub-owned GitHubAction not pinned by hash: .github/workflows/pull_request.yml:51: update your workflow using https://app.stepsecurity.io/secureworkflow/biojava/biojava/pull_request.yml/master?enable=pin
⚠️ Warn: GitHub-owned GitHubAction not pinned by hash: .github/workflows/pull_request.yml:53: update your workflow using https://app.stepsecurity.io/secureworkflow/biojava/biojava/pull_request.yml/master?enable=pin
ℹ️ Info: 0 out of 6 GitHub-owned 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 21 are checked with a SAST tool
N/A
Branch-Protection
Not Applicable

internal error: error during branchesHandler.setup: internal error: githubv4.Query: Resource not accessible by integration

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

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 625
  • Forks 395
  • Open issues 69
  • License lgpl-2.1
  • Language Java
  • Size 48.9 MB
  • Created at almost 13 years ago
  • Updated at 4 days ago
  • Pushed at 2 months ago
  • Last synced at 1 day ago
  • Dependencies parsed at Pending
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