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cisofy/lynis: technical due diligence, read from its repository

What Borehole read in cisofy/lynis's code and history at 9319416: 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.

DimensionRating
Architecture & Codebase — including AI provenancestrong
Engineering Process & SDLC Maturitystrong
Product & Engineering Maturitynot assessable
Security & Reliability Posturestrong
Observability & Operationsadequate
Fit with the Acquirernot assessable

What the repository says

  • LICENSE: Relicensed: GPL-3.0 → GPL-3.0 with additional terms (2014-08-26) → GPL-3.0 (2014-10-06)
  • README.md:83: names Linux Foundation

Architecture & Codebase — including AI provenance

strong

No finding.

Engineering Process & SDLC Maturity

strong

No finding.

Product & Engineering Maturity

not assessable

Not rated: only 7 of 19 checks could reach a conclusion here; the rest do not apply to this repository or could not read it.

Security & Reliability Posture

strong
05.60

Relicensed: GPL-3.0 → GPL-3.0 with additional terms (2014-08-26) → GPL-3.0 (2014-10-06)

adequate

The root licence changed 2 time(s). Code taken under earlier terms stays under them; check which terms any fork or customer relied on.

Evidence
LICENSE — GPL-3.0 from 2014-08-26
LICENSE — GPL-3.0 with additional terms from 2014-08-26
LICENSE — GPL-3.0 from 2014-10-06

Observability & Operations

adequate
06.8

One request cannot be followed through the logs

adequate

Nothing in the service carries a request or correlation id, and there is no tracing. When a customer reports a failure, the log lines that belong to their request cannot be picked out from everyone else's.

Evidence
no request id, correlation id or tracing found
06.9

No error reporter is wired in

adequate

Nothing in the service initialises an error reporter (Sentry, Rollbar, Bugsnag, Honeybadger or an APM agent). An exception in production reaches a person only if someone is reading the logs, which usually means a customer reports it first.

Evidence
no error reporter initialised

Fit with the Acquirer

not assessable

Not rated: structurally not assessable from a repository.

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