trufflesecurity/trufflehog

Maintenance

Active

Human commits, 30 days

64

Human commits, 90 days

136

Human commits, 365 days

401

Bot share of commits, 365 days

8%

Last commit

Oct 14, 2026 (13 hours ago)

Last human commit

Oct 14, 2026 (13 hours ago)

Authors, 90 days

37

Last release

Oct 8, 2026 (6 days ago)

Median PR merge time

22 hours

Responsiveness: of 24 recent issues, 46% got a maintainer reply. Median first response: 47 hours.

Sources: Commits, Releases, Merged pull requests, Issues

People

Owner

Organization

Commits sampled

401 since Oct 14, 2025

Authors for half of commits

6

Authors for 80% of commits

17

Contributors

206

Top committers

• MuneebUllahKhan222: 12% of commits
• mustansir14: 10% of commits
• kashifkhan0771: 9% of commits
• shahzadhaider1: 8% of commits
• rosecodym: 6% of commits

The top committer changed during this period.

Sources: Commits, Contributors

Stars

Organic, confidence high

Bursts

• Jan 10, 2018 to Jan 12, 2018: about 36 more stars than usual, peak 16 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
• Aug 6, 2018 to Aug 7, 2018: about 44 more stars than usual, peak 40 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
• Jan 9, 2019 to Jan 10, 2019: about 44 more stars than usual, peak 31 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
• Apr 4, 2022 to Apr 29, 2022: about 1.7k more stars than usual, peak 317 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Oct 18, 2022 to Oct 20, 2022: about 56 more stars than usual, peak 31 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
• Jan 27, 2023 to Jan 27, 2023: about 64 more stars than usual, peak 71 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Apr 26, 2023 to Apr 28, 2023: about 68 more stars than usual, peak 46 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Oct 19, 2023 to Oct 20, 2023: about 145 more stars than usual, peak 114 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Feb 22, 2024 to Feb 28, 2024: about 182 more stars than usual, peak 94 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
• Jul 25, 2024 to Aug 6, 2024: about 380 more stars than usual, peak 50 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Oct 31, 2024 to Nov 14, 2024: about 1k more stars than usual, peak 221 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
• Jan 27, 2025 to Jan 30, 2025: about 73 more stars than usual, peak 39 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• May 30, 2025 to May 31, 2025: about 93 more stars than usual, peak 76 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Sep 4, 2025 to Sep 23, 2025: about 1.7k more stars than usual, peak 228 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
• Nov 25, 2025 to Nov 29, 2025: about 171 more stars than usual, peak 70 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Apr 3, 2026 to Apr 6, 2026: about 199 more stars than usual, peak 93 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• May 13, 2026 to May 14, 2026: about 100 more stars than usual, peak 94 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Sep 11, 2026 to Sep 15, 2026: about 123 more stars than usual, peak 53 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.

• 3 stars GitHub has since removed (tracked since Oct 14, 2026).

Anyone can buy stars for any repo; bursts alone don't prove the owner did.

• The star history looks organic.

Sources: How star history is analyzed

Risk

Flags

No risk flags.

License

Now

AGPL-3.0 (OSI-approved)

A year ago

AGPL-3.0 (OSI-approved)

Packages

• github.com/trufflesecurity/trufflehog/v3 (GO): latest v3.99.2, published Oct 8, 2026
  Advisories for the latest version: none listed

Package and advisory data: deps.dev and OSV.

OpenSSF Scorecard: 7.4 out of 10 (via deps.dev).

Sources: GitHub: trufflesecurity/trufflehog, deps.dev: Go github.com/trufflesecurity/trufflehog/v3