Read 2026-10-04
fasterxml/jackson-databind: technical due diligence, read from its repository
What Borehole read in fasterxml/jackson-databind's code and history at f44fb8e: 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 | strong |
| Security & Reliability Posture | strong |
| Observability & Operations | not assessable |
| Fit with the Acquirer | not assessable |
What the repository says
README.md:22: names OpenSSF
Architecture & Codebase — including AI provenance
strongNo finding.
Engineering Process & SDLC Maturity
strongAlmost no process scaffolding exists in the repository
adequateOf five ordinary markers — CI workflows, CODEOWNERS, a pull-request template, pre-commit hooks, contribution guidance — 1 is present: CI workflows. Branch protection itself is a GitHub setting rather than a file, so this is a reading of proxies and not of the rules themselves. What it does establish is that the process is not written down anywhere a new engineer would find it.
| 1 of 5 markers present across 1,473 tracked files |
Product & Engineering Maturity
strongNo finding.
Security & Reliability Posture
strong17 advisories against this project in the last 24 months, 5 high or critical
adequateThe newest was published on 2026-09-22. 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 3.2.3. Answer lives in: the release you run, set against each fixed version.
| 2026-09-22: GHSA-wv8q-qhhj-9h54 (high), fixed in 2.18.11: jackson-databind retains every unknown raw type ID |
| 2026-09-22: GHSA-cxp5-3px4-pw24 (high), fixed in 2.18.11: jackson-databind quadratic forward-reference completion |
| 2026-09-01: GHSA-gx83-3vf8-gh7j (moderate), fixed in 2.18.10: Comparable missing from DefaultBaseTypeLimitingValidator's unsafe base types (incomplete PolymorphicTypeValidator denylist) |
| 2026-08-21: GHSA-wjgm-6hv5-3cvf (moderate), fixed in 2.18.10: Path Deserialization Missing Scheme Allowlist for FileSystemProvider Resolution |
| 2026-08-21: GHSA-q4xh-88c3-wmh7 (high), fixed in 2.18.10: Duration XMLGregorianCalendar Unbounded Number Parse DoS |
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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