Read 2026-10-04
gotify/server: technical due diligence, read from its repository
What Borehole read in gotify/server's code and history at d02796b: 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 | adequate |
| Observability & Operations | adequate |
| Fit with the Acquirer | not assessable |
Architecture & Codebase — including AI provenance
strongNo finding.
Engineering Process & SDLC Maturity
strongNo finding.
Product & Engineering Maturity
strongNo finding.
Security & Reliability Posture
adequate1 credential-shaped string in the tree sit in tests, examples, documentation or local development settings
adequateStrings shaped like credentials appear only where fakes are usual: test fixtures, examples, documentation, placeholders and local stacks. They are almost always fakes. Ask someone to confirm that none of them works anywhere, because a real key in a development file is still a real key.
| private key block, where fakes are usual |
1 Dockerfile runs the application as root
adequateNo USER instruction switches away from root, so the process runs with full privileges inside the container. It is a one-line fix and an ordinary expectation, which is why its absence is worth asking about: it usually says more about whether anyone has reviewed the deployment than about this container specifically.
docker/Dockerfile — runs as root |
The build runs third-party code it does not pin
adequate6 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/build.yml:19 — action pinned by tag |
.github/workflows/build.yml:28 — action pinned by tag |
10 locked dependencies have published vulnerabilities, 18 high or critical
adequate10 of 555 locked dependencies match 30 published advisories in OSV, 18 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.
ui/yarn.lock — axios 1.18.1: GHSA-3pq3-5fj3-cg6v (high), fixed in 1.20.0 |
ui/yarn.lock — brace-expansion 5.0.7: GHSA-6j4f-fj2g-mc7p (high), fixed in 5.0.10 |
ui/yarn.lock — browserslist 4.28.4: GHSA-73wf-gq98-2v4g (high), fixed in 4.28.7 |
3 advisories against this project in the last 24 months, 1 high or critical
adequateThe newest was published on 2026-09-15. 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: its keyword search for 'server' is too broad to read whole (40,455 records); NVD: 923 records name server with nothing tying them to this repository (CVE-1999-0070, CVE-1999-0079, CVE-1999-0103, …).
| 2026-09-15: GHSA-phfm-q6fr-wv34 (high), fixed in 3.1.1: Creating users doesn't require an elevated session |
| 2026-08-27: GHSA-78w7-2h8c-8252 (moderate), fixed in 3.1.0: Plugin Messages can lead to Denial-of-Service due to WebSocket stream module use-after-close |
| 2026-07-24: GHSA-3hcj-9m7p-wwm9 (moderate), fixed in 3.0.0: Insufficiently Protected Password Change endpoint in github.com/gotify/server/v2 |
Observability & Operations
adequateOne request cannot be followed through the logs
adequateNothing 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.
| no request id, correlation id or tracing found |
No error reporter is wired in
adequateNothing 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.
| no error reporter initialised |
Fit with the Acquirer
not assessableNot rated: structurally not assessable from a repository.
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