Read 2026-10-04
filamentphp/filament: technical due diligence, read from its repository
What Borehole read in filamentphp/filament's code and history at 154a22c: 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 | adequate |
| Security & Reliability Posture | adequate |
| 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
strongCommit messages are templated rather than written
adequate46% of commit subjects are exact repeats of another subject, and subject length varies by only 20.7 characters. A log written by someone explaining their reasoning to a future reader does not look like this. The log is therefore weak evidence of intent, whatever the code is like.
| 1771× 'wip' |
| 962× 'chore: fix code style' |
| 381× 'chore: styling' |
docs-assets/screenshots/schema.js is 7,664 lines, 201× this codebase's median file
adequateThe median source file here is 38 lines. 17 files exceed 1,000 lines, the largest being 7,664. 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.
docs-assets/screenshots/schema.js:1 — 7,664 lines (201× median) |
packages/forms/resources/js/components/markdown-editor/EasyMDE.js:1 — 3,555 lines (93× median) |
packages/tables/resources/views/index.blade.php:1 — 2,708 lines (71× median) |
docs-assets/app/app/Livewire/TablesDemo.php:1 — 2,675 lines (70× median) |
packages/support/resources/js/utilities/select.js:1 — 2,426 lines (63× median) |
Engineering Process & SDLC Maturity
strongNo finding.
Product & Engineering Maturity
adequate18% of bug fixes add or change a test
adequateOf 1416 fixes in the last 24 months, 252 touched a test. A fix without the test that would have caught the bug can quietly come back, and the suite never learns from what went wrong.
| 252 of 1416 |
Releases are cut from another branch than the one surveyed
adequateThe newest release, v5.8.4, is not on the branch this survey read; the newest release on it is v4.14.0. The shipped product may differ from what this report describes. Survey the release branch too.
| tag v5.8.4 |
Security & Reliability Posture
adequate1 environment file is committed
adequatedocs-assets/app/.env is 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.
docs-assets/app/.env — committed environment file |
6 deserialisers that can run code
adequate6 places read data with a deserialiser that executes what it reads (PHP `unserialize`). That is safe on data the system wrote itself and remote code execution on anything else. Ask where each one's input comes from.
packages/actions/src/Exports/Jobs/ExportCsv.php:82 — code-executing deserialiser |
packages/actions/src/Exports/Jobs/PrepareCsvExport.php:71 — code-executing deserialiser |
packages/actions/src/Imports/Jobs/ImportCsv.php:80 — code-executing deserialiser |
3 locked dependencies have published vulnerabilities, 1 high or critical in what ships
adequate3 of 170 locked dependencies match 4 published advisories in OSV, 1 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.
docs-assets/app/composer.lock — league/commonmark 2.10.0: GHSA-3q6v-r5mr-hxv8 (high), fixed in 2.10.2 |
docs-assets/app/composer.lock — laravel/framework 13.24.0: GHSA-jh5r-qr3c-85q8 (low), fixed in 13.30.0 |
docs-assets/app/composer.lock — league/flysystem 3.35.2: GHSA-cxf4-7mrp-vvpr (low), fixed in 3.35.3 |
14 advisories against this project in the last 24 months, 6 high or critical
adequateThe newest was published on 2026-09-23. A project that publishes advisories is telling its users about its fixes, and the count and pace say how much security work it carries. None of them affects the surveyed version. The record is incomplete: NVD: 4 records name filament with nothing tying them to this repository (CVE-2024-42485, CVE-2024-47817, CVE-2026-47740, …).
| 2026-09-23: GHSA-7m6h-rg42-m449 (moderate), fixed in >= 5.8.3: Multi-factor authentication (app) management actions do not require password reauthentication |
| 2026-08-17: GHSA-r3j6-gpjw-qfjr (moderate), fixed in >= 5.7.6: Multi-factor authentication (app) codes can still be used after a newer code has been used |
| 2026-08-17: GHSA-xwpv-pqxp-5v36 (low), fixed in >= 5.7.5: Password validity disclosure for accounts denied panel access on login page |
| 2026-08-17: GHSA-52xp-w8hr-xv3c (high), fixed in >= 5.7.0: Multi-factor authentication (app) can be bypassed when recovery codes are enabled |
| 2026-06-17: GHSA-m9cv-24rx-8mv7 (high), fixed in >= 3.3.53: Disabled RichEditor field state can be used for XSS |
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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