{"categories":[{"label":"Security","url":"https://skillfed.io/packages/category/security/2"}],"enrichment":{"capability":"Mixbox provides shared utility code for cybersecurity and threat intelligence libraries, handling common data structures and serialization logic used by python-cybox, python-maec, and python-stix.","skillfed_tags":["threat-intelligence","cybersecurity-framework","dormant-maintenance"],"use_cases":["Building threat intelligence tools that depend on python-cybox, python-maec, or python-stix frameworks.","Developing cybersecurity analysis platforms that need shared data serialization and XML handling utilities.","Contributing to or extending existing CybOX, MAEC, or STIX-based security projects that rely on mixbox internals."],"what_it_does":"Mixbox is a utility library that provides shared code for three related Python packages in the cybersecurity domain: python-cybox, python-maec, and python-stix. It handles common data structures, serialization logic, and XML processing that these threat intelligence frameworks rely on. The package depends on lxml for XML handling, python-dateutil for date operations, ordered-set for ordered collections, and weakrefmethod for weak reference support.\n\nThe library is in production/stable status but has been dormant since late 2020, with no releases or commits for several years. It remains in the top 15000 PyPI packages by download volume, suggesting it is still used as a transitive dependency by downstream security tools. However, its age and lack of active maintenance mean it carries the risk of compatibility issues with newer Python versions or dependency updates.","worth_installing":"Yes, if you are using python-cybox, python-maec, or python-stix\u2014mixbox is a required transitive dependency. No, if you are starting a new project; the dormant maintenance status and lack of updates since 2020 make it unsuitable as a foundation for new code. Install only as a dependency of active downstream packages."},"id":"mixbox","links":{"html":"https://skillfed.io/packages/mixbox","md":"https://skillfed.io/packages/mixbox.md","pypi":"https://pypi.org/project/mixbox/"},"maintenance":{"status":"dormant"},"meta":{"latest_release":"2020-11-20","license_spdx":null,"license_treatment":"permissive","name":"mixbox","python_support":"unspecified","summary":"Utility library for cybox, maec, and stix packages"},"popularity":{"monthly_downloads":122832,"position":11929,"tier":"top_15000"},"security":{"n_vulnerabilities":0},"version":"1.0.5"}