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Janssen Project

Cloud-native identity and access management platform

Identity & SSO ★ 652 stars Hard setup Apache-2.0

The Janssen Project is a Linux Foundation effort delivering a scalable, cloud-native identity and access management platform. It implements OpenID Connect, OAuth 2.0, and FIDO standards for authentication and authorization.

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Key features

  • OpenID Connect provider
  • OAuth 2.0 server
  • FIDO2 and passkeys
  • Cloud-native deployment

Pros & cons

Strengths

  • Standards complete
  • Built for scale

Trade-offs

  • Complex to operate
  • Heavy resource needs

Is Janssen Project secure?

No known vulnerabilities affect Janssen Project's latest release (v2.5.0). OSV.dev lists 3 past advisories for the project; none of them applies to this release. No known vulnerabilities is not proof of security: it means none have been publicly catalogued.

  • Most recent fixed advisory CVE-2026-45795, published 2026-07-16 (90 days ago), fixed in 2.0.0

Source: OSV.dev, checked 2026-10-14. How this is measured.

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