Read 2026-10-23
ever-co/ever-gauzy: technical due diligence, read from its repository
What Borehole read in ever-co/ever-gauzy's code and history at bbcf1d8: 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 | adequate |
| Product & Engineering Maturity | adequate |
| Security & Reliability Posture | adequate |
| Observability & Operations | adequate |
| Fit with the Acquirer | not assessable |
What the repository says
LICENSE: Relicensed: AGPL-3.0 → proprietary (2020-10-04) → AGPL-3.0 AND proprietary (2024-04-25) → AGPL-3.0 (2024-04-25)
Architecture & Codebase — including AI provenance
strongpackages/core/src/lib/database/migrations/1725879899378-AlterBaseEntityAddArchivedAtField.ts is 8,246 lines, 164× this codebase's median file
adequateThe median source file here is 50 lines. 94 files exceed 1,000 lines, the largest being 8,246. 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.
packages/core/src/lib/database/migrations/1725879899378-AlterBaseEntityAddArchivedAtField.ts:1 — 8,246 lines (164× median) |
packages/core/src/lib/database/migrations/1696413384868-AddedActiveArchivedColumnsToBaseEntity.ts:1 — 5,368 lines (107× median) |
packages/core/src/lib/database/migrations/1705138670108-MysqlTablesMigration.ts:1 — 4,834 lines (96× median) |
packages/core/src/lib/database/migrations/1698659313745-AddSoftDeleteFeatureToTheAllTables.ts:1 — 4,756 lines (95× median) |
packages/plugins/integration-ai/src/lib/sdk/gauzy-ai-sdk.ts:1 — 4,128 lines (82× median) |
Engineering Process & SDLC Maturity
adequateTests are retried until they pass
adequateThe suite is configured to retry failing tests (apps/gauzy-e2e/playwright.config.ts). A retry turns a flaky test green without saying why it failed, so a green build means the tests passed eventually. Ask how many retries a typical run needs, and which tests need them.
apps/gauzy-e2e/playwright.config.ts:78 — test retry |
5% of recent commits change more than 2,000 lines
adequate207 of 4076 commits in the last 24 months changed over 2,000 lines of code, not counting reformatting, renames, vendored or generated code. A change that size is rarely reviewed line by line. Ask how they were reviewed, and what made them that large.
| 207 commits over 2,000 lines |
Product & Engineering Maturity
adequate165 direct dependencies in a single manifest
adequatepackages/core/package.json declares 165 direct dependencies. Each one is a maintenance obligation, a supply-chain surface and a potential licence question that transfers with the asset. The count says nothing about whether any given dependency was a good choice; it says how many such choices a buyer inherits.
packages/core/package.json — 165 declared |
apps/gauzy/package.json — 143 declared |
apps/desktop/src/package.json — 120 declared |
apps/server/src/package.json — 118 declared |
2 jobs are each done by more than one library
adequateWithin a single package: HTTP clients: axios, node-fetch, request; dates: date-fns, dayjs, moment. Each duplicate is bundle size, two ways of doing the same thing in one codebase, and two upgrade paths to maintain. It is usually the residue of a migration that stopped halfway.
apps/agent/package.json — several libraries per job |
apps/agent/src/package.json — several libraries per job |
61 feature flags have been live for over a year
adequate63 feature flags appear in the history. 1 were removed; 61 are still in the code more than a year after they were added, the oldest since Sep 2024. A flag that stays is a permanent branch, and each one doubles what has to be tested. Ask which are still switched, and who owns retiring them.
packages/config/src/environments/environment.ts — flag FEATURE_DASHBOARD since Sep 2024 |
packages/config/src/environments/environment.ts — flag FEATURE_TIME_TRACKING since Sep 2024 |
packages/config/src/environments/environment.ts — flag FEATURE_ESTIMATE since Sep 2024 |
packages/config/src/environments/environment.ts — flag FEATURE_ESTIMATE_RECEIVED since Sep 2024 |
packages/config/src/environments/environment.ts — flag FEATURE_INVOICE since Sep 2024 |
Security & Reliability Posture
adequate3 credential-shaped strings committed to the tree
adequateMatches for Google API key appear in tracked files outside test and fixture paths. They stay in the history even after they leave the tree, so what matters is whether each was rotated. The code cannot tell whether any of them is live, and that decides whether this matters: none sits in production configuration, and none is in a format its provider keeps for live keys. Is any of these live? Show that each was rotated after it was committed, and when. Only Google API keys matched. Those are often public by design, in a browser app's Firebase or Maps configuration; the question is whether each is restricted to the app's domains and APIs.
| 3 cited: Google API key pattern matched |
3 environment files are committed
adequate.env.compose, .env.demo.compose, .env.docker are tracked in git. Environment files are where credentials usually live, and committing one usually means nobody decided how secrets reach the running application. Whatever is in it is in the history for good. Check 05.1 says whether it holds anything credential-shaped.
.env.compose — committed environment file |
.env.demo.compose — committed environment file |
.env.docker — committed environment file |
The build runs third-party code it does not pin
adequate18 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/agent-demo.yml:139 — action pinned by tag |
.github/workflows/deploy-do-app-platform-demo.yml:37 — action pinned by tag |
18 SQL statements built from strings
adequate18 places in product code build SQL by formatting or joining strings rather than passing parameters. 3 of them put a value into the string; in the rest, what the code shows going in is a table or column name, a constant, or something the line does not show. Ask whether any value reaches these strings, rather than a parameter.
packages/plugins/ever-connect/src/lib/ever-connect-catalog.service.ts:59 — SQL built from a string |
packages/plugins/ever-connect/src/lib/ever-connect-catalog.service.ts:68 — SQL built from a string |
packages/plugins/ever-connect/src/lib/ever-connect-catalog.service.ts:73 — SQL built from a string |
2 shell commands built from strings
adequate2 places run a command through a shell (`shell=True`, `os.system`, `exec` with a template) rather than passing arguments. Where any part comes from outside, it is command injection. Ask where each one's input comes from.
.scripts/postinstall.js:223 — command run through a shell |
decorate-angular-cli.js:60 — command run through a shell |
10 of 15 Kubernetes workloads declare no resource limits
adequate10 workload manifests set no CPU or memory limits. One pod that leaks memory or spins can starve everything else on its node, and the scheduler cannot plan capacity for what it cannot see.
.deploy/k8s/k8s-manifest.civo.demo.yaml — workload with no limits |
.deploy/k8s/k8s-manifest.civo.prod.yaml — workload with no limits |
.deploy/k8s/k8s-manifest.civo.stage.yaml — workload with no limits |
48 locked dependencies have published vulnerabilities, 58 high or critical
adequate48 of 5,388 locked dependencies match 104 published advisories in OSV, 58 of them rated high or critical. A lockfile says which version is installed, not whether the flawed code is reachable from this product, so each needs a look. Most are fixed by an upgrade, and the advisory names the version. None of the high or critical ones is in what the product ships: 1 apply only under a condition the advisory states, which a lockfile cannot settle. This lockfile pins development tools alongside what ships and does not say which is which, so some of these may never reach a user.
5 places insert HTML from a variable without sanitising it
adequate5 places set HTML from a value that is neither a literal nor passed through a sanitiser. Where the value can come from a user, that is stored cross-site scripting, and it is the first thing a buyer's security review looks for in a frontend.
packages/plugins/dashboard-time-track-react-ui/src/lib/components/NbIcon.tsx:41 — HTML from a variable |
packages/ui-core/shared/src/lib/directives/read-more.directive.ts:72 — HTML from a variable |
packages/ui-core/shared/src/lib/directives/read-more.directive.ts:80 — HTML from a variable |
1 vendored component with no licence
adequateThird-party code is committed into this repository without any statement of the terms it arrived under. Unknown terms are harder to deal with than inconvenient ones: an awkward licence can be complied with, an absent one cannot. Each of these needs its origin established before the code changes hands.
vendor/nebular — 4 tracked files, no licence file |
Relicensed: AGPL-3.0 → proprietary (2020-10-04) → AGPL-3.0 AND proprietary (2024-04-25) → AGPL-3.0 (2024-04-25)
adequateThe root licence changed 3 time(s). Code taken under earlier terms stays under them; check which terms any fork or customer relied on.
LICENSE — AGPL-3.0 from 2019-06-02 |
LICENSE — proprietary from 2020-10-04 |
LICENSE — AGPL-3.0 AND proprietary from 2024-04-25 |
LICENSE.md — AGPL-3.0 from 2024-04-25 |
35 advisories against this project in the last 24 months, 27 high or critical
adequateThe newest was published on 2026-09-26. 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 1 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 111.131.0. Answer lives in: the release you run, set against each fixed version.
| 2026-09-26: GHSA-28wv-vrxj-rp4q (high), fixed in 111.44.6: Public Invoice Link Accepts Unbound JWTs and Default Signing Keys |
| 2026-09-26: GHSA-48h9-vwf5-h8m7 (high), fixed in 111.44.5: Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') and Inclusion of Functionality from Untrusted Control Sphere in @gauzy/core |
| 2026-09-26: GHSA-57hw-jqpj-ww97 (moderate), fixed in 111.44.4: Cross-Tenant Global Invoice Number Sequence Leak via Unscoped Highest Query |
| 2026-09-26: GHSA-jh6m-9fxr-rx3c (critical), fixed in 111.44.7: Cross-Tenant Entity Takeover via Primary Key Upsert in TenantAware Update Handlers |
| 2026-09-26: GHSA-7xp5-j564-4752 (moderate), fixed in 111.44.2: CSV formula injection in data export (exported cells are not neutralized) |
Observability & Operations
adequateNo structured logging library is in use
adequateNothing references a structured logging library. Logs that are written to be read by a person are not searchable by a machine, which means incident response here is proportional to how well someone remembers the codebase rather than to what the tooling can find.
| searched 14,962 files for 10 structured logging libraries; 0 matched |
29 of 29 deployed images carry no version, or `latest`
adequate29 images in the deployment configuration are named without a version or as `latest`. A redeploy can change the software without a commit, a rollback has nothing to roll back to, and nobody can say from the repository what is running.
.deploy/k8s/k8s-manifest.civo.demo.yaml:51 — image without a version |
.deploy/k8s/k8s-manifest.civo.demo.yaml:132 — image without a version |
.deploy/ssh/with-letsencrypt/prod/docker-compose.api.prod.template.yml:5 — image without a version |
13 of 15 deployments run a single replica
adequate13 deployments set `replicas: 1`, and nothing (an autoscaler, a disruption budget) adds more. Every deploy and every node drain is downtime, and the availability the buyer inherits has a ceiling.
.deploy/k8s/k8s-manifest.civo.demo.yaml — replicas: 1 |
.deploy/k8s/k8s-manifest.civo.prod.yaml — replicas: 1 |
.deploy/k8s/k8s-manifest.civo.stage.yaml — replicas: 1 |
The code branches on the environment's name at 68 places
adequate68 places outside configuration test whether they are running in production or staging. Staging then does not exercise production's code, and each deploy is the first run of those branches. Differences belong in configuration the code reads, not in the code.
.scripts/bump-version-electron.js:128 — branch on the environment name |
.scripts/bump-version-electron.js:168 — branch on the environment name |
.scripts/bump-version-electron.js:197 — branch on the environment name |
Fit with the Acquirer
not assessableNot rated: structurally not assessable from a repository.
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