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SABnzbd

Newsreader for downloading, verifying and extracting files from Usenet

Media Servers ★ 3.1k stars Medium setup GPL-2.0

Newsreader for downloading, verifying and extracting files from Usenet.

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Strengths

  • Released under the GPL-2.0 license
  • Active community (3.1k GitHub stars)
  • Written in Python
  • Tiny footprint — runs in 200 MB RAM

Is SABnzbd secure?

No known vulnerabilities affect SABnzbd's latest release (5.1.3). 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-2023-34237, published 2023-06-07 (1225 days ago), fixed in 4.0.2

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

Health badge

Maintain SABnzbd? Add its health score to your README. The badge links back to this page.

SelfHostIndex: 90 · excellent

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   :alt: SelfHostIndex health score for SABnzbd
   :target: https://selfhostindex.com/app/sabnzbd/

The score is recomputed on every nightly rebuild from public repository data — see how it is calculated.

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