Passport.js End of Life (EOL) Dates & Support Timeline
Complete end-of-life dates, support windows, and security status for all Passport.js versions. Data sourced from endoflife.date and official vendor documentation. Updated at every deploy.
| Version | Latest Release | Release Date | EOL Date | Days | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | 0.7.0 | Oct 8, 2011 | TBD | Supported | Active |
Passport.js lifecycle status — the real story
Passport is the de facto authentication middleware for Express and much of the Node.js ecosystem, sitting directly on the security-critical login path of hundreds of thousands of applications. Its lifecycle profile is unusual: after 14 years it still versions as 0.x, with sparse maintenance — the 0.7.0 release of November 2023 is the most recent.
No end of life has been declared, and the core library is small and stable by design. The real lifecycle exposure is in the strategy ecosystem: hundreds of community-maintained passport-* packages with wildly varying maintenance, several of which have had serious advisories of their own (Passport core's 2022 session-fixation fix in 0.6.0 being the notable core example).
Audit Passport deployments at the strategy level, not the core level — an up-to-date Passport with an abandoned strategy plugin is the common failure mode.
What does Passport.js end of life mean for your organization?
When a version of Passport.js reaches end of life, the maintainers stop issuing security patches. Vulnerabilities discovered after this date are publicly disclosed on the National Vulnerability Database, exploit code appears on GitHub, and your systems remain permanently exposed.
The CVE blind spot: Most vulnerability scanners check for known CVEs but do not flag the accumulation of unpatched vulnerabilities in EOL software. With a zero-day, nobody knows about the vulnerability. With EOL software, the vulnerability is public — listed, rated, and often weaponized — but no patch will ever exist. This is the most dangerous gap in enterprise security posture.
Organizations running EOL Passport.js should treat it as a vulnerability class in their risk register, apply compensating controls (network segmentation, enhanced monitoring, access restriction), and prioritize migration to a supported version.
Extended Support Options
If you cannot migrate immediately, extended support vendors provide continued security patches for EOL Passport.js versions. This is a bridge, not a permanent solution — plan your migration in parallel.
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