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Janus

General-purpose, lightweight, minimalist WebRTC Server

Video Conferencing ★ 9.2k stars Medium setup GPL-3.0

General-purpose, lightweight, minimalist WebRTC Server.

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Strengths

  • Released under the GPL-3.0 license
  • Mature project with 9.2k GitHub stars
  • Written in C
  • Lightweight — runs in 512 MB RAM

Is Janus secure?

OSV.dev lists 15 published advisories for Janus. It doesn't publish GitHub releases we can match, so we can't say which of them apply to the current version. No known vulnerabilities is not proof of security: it means none have been publicly catalogued.

  • Most recent fixed advisory CVE-2026-108830, published 2026-10-12 (2 days ago)

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

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