Read 2026-10-23
activeloopai/deeplake: technical due diligence, read from its repository
What Borehole read in activeloopai/deeplake's code and history at f432041: its licence, security advisories, releases, review practice, tests, dependencies and operations. Every finding cites the file and line it rests on. The full report also covers the team and asks the questions the code cannot answer.
| Dimension | Rating |
|---|---|
| Architecture & Codebase — including AI provenance | adequate |
| Engineering Process & SDLC Maturity | strong |
| Product & Engineering Maturity | strong |
| Security & Reliability Posture | strong |
| Observability & Operations | not assessable |
| Fit with the Acquirer | not assessable |
What the repository says
LICENSE: Relicensed: MPL-2.0 → Apache-2.0 (2024-10-23)
Architecture & Codebase — including AI provenance
adequatecpp/3rd_party/openjpeg/openjp2/j2k.c is 13,015 lines, 166× this codebase's median file
adequateThe median source file here is 78 lines. 40 files exceed 1,000 lines, the largest being 13,015. Size is not a defect on its own — some problems genuinely live in one place — but these are where merge conflicts, review fatigue and single-owner knowledge concentrate, and they are the first thing that slows an inheriting engineer down.
cpp/3rd_party/openjpeg/openjp2/j2k.c:1 — 13,015 lines (166× median) |
cpp/3rd_party/rnifti/niftilib/nifti2_io.cpp:1 — 10,155 lines (130× median) |
cpp/3rd_party/libtiff/tif_dirread.c:1 — 8,448 lines (108× median) |
cpp/3rd_party/rnifti/niftilib/nifti1_io.cpp:1 — 7,690 lines (98× median) |
cpp/3rd_party/sql-parser/src/parser/bison_parser.cpp:1 — 6,055 lines (77× median) |
1 base image floats: no version, or `latest`
adequate1 of 1 `FROM` lines in product Dockerfiles name an image without a version, or with `latest`. Each build pulls whatever the registry serves that day, so the image that ships can change without a commit, and last month's build cannot be reproduced. Pin a version, or a digest.
postgres/Dockerfile:1 — base image without a version |
Engineering Process & SDLC Maturity
strongNo finding.
Product & Engineering Maturity
strongNo finding.
Security & Reliability Posture
strong8 dependencies float, and no lockfile is committed
adequateDependency versions are declared as ranges and no lockfile is committed, so a build today does not necessarily produce what a build last month produced. That matters twice over in a transaction: the thing being bought cannot be reproduced exactly, and a compromised upstream release arrives without anyone choosing to take it.
postgres/tests/py_tests/requirements.txt:2 — >=0.29.0 |
postgres/tests/py_tests/requirements.txt:3 — any version |
postgres/tests/py_tests/requirements.txt:4 — any version |
postgres/tests/py_tests/requirements.txt:7 — >=7.4.0 |
postgres/tests/py_tests/requirements.txt:8 — >=0.21.0 |
The build runs third-party code it does not pin
adequate5 third-party CI actions are referenced by a tag or branch rather than a commit, so they run whatever that tag points to on the day. Tags have been moved to malicious commits in real supply-chain attacks, and a piped script is whatever the server returns that minute. Pinning to a commit is the fix, and it is small.
.github/workflows/pg-extension-build.yaml:86 — action pinned by tag |
.github/workflows/pg-extension-build.yaml:206 — action pinned by tag |
1 deserialiser that can run code
adequate1 places read data with a deserialiser that executes what it reads (pickle). That is safe on data the system wrote itself and remote code execution on anything else. Ask where each one's input comes from.
python/deeplake/integrations/mmdet/test_.py:218 — code-executing deserialiser |
Observability & Operations
not assessableNot rated: only 4 of 16 checks could reach a conclusion here; the rest do not apply to this repository or could not read it.
Fit with the Acquirer
not assessableNot rated: structurally not assessable from a repository.
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