Read 2026-11-07
activerecord-hackery/ransack: technical due diligence, read from its repository
What Borehole read in activerecord-hackery/ransack's code and history at 907687b: 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 | strong |
| Engineering Process & SDLC Maturity | strong |
| Product & Engineering Maturity | not assessable |
| Security & Reliability Posture | strong |
| Observability & Operations | not assessable |
| Fit with the Acquirer | not assessable |
What the repository says
- Releases are cut from another branch than the one surveyed
Architecture & Codebase — including AI provenance
strongNo finding.
Engineering Process & SDLC Maturity
strongNo finding.
Product & Engineering Maturity
not assessableReleases are cut from another branch than the one surveyed
adequateThe newest release, v6.0.1, is not on the branch this survey read; the newest release on it is v6.0.0. The shipped product may differ from what this report describes. Survey the release branch too.
| tag v6.0.1 |
Security & Reliability Posture
strong3 advisories against this project in the last 24 months, 2 high or critical
adequateThe newest was published on 2026-10-25. A project that publishes advisories is telling its users about its fixes, and the count and pace say how much security work it carries. Whether 3 of them are fixed in the code you ship could not be told from this history: its version is only known to be at least 6.0.0. Answer lives in: the release you run, set against each fixed version.
| 2026-10-25: GHSA-58rx-96gf-w92x (moderate), fixed in 6.0.1: Ransack: sort_link and sort_url take url_for options from request params, allowing reflected XSS and open redirect |
| 2026-09-22: GHSA-j3f8-w227-4hh8 (high), fixed in 4.4.3: Ransack: quadratic-time parsing of a single search key enables unauthenticated CPU-exhaustion DoS |
| 2026-09-22: GHSA-vxc9-rm8f-p56j (high), fixed in 4.4.2: Ransack has a memory-exhaustion DoS via unbounded attribute position field in query params |
Observability & Operations
not assessableNot rated: only 5 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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