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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.

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

What the repository says

  • README.md:22: names OpenSSF

Architecture & Codebase — including AI provenance

strong

No finding.

Engineering Process & SDLC Maturity

strong
02.6

Almost no process scaffolding exists in the repository

adequate

Of 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.

Evidence
1 of 5 markers present across 1,473 tracked files

Product & Engineering Maturity

strong

No finding.

Security & Reliability Posture

strong
05.65

17 advisories against this project in the last 24 months, 5 high or critical

adequate

The 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.

Evidence
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 assessable

Not 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 assessable

Not rated: structurally not assessable from a repository.

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