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honojs/hono: technical due diligence, read from its repository
What Borehole read in honojs/hono's code and history at 6abd35b: 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 | not assessable |
| Fit with the Acquirer | not assessable |
What the repository says
docs/CONTRIBUTING.md:21: states a policy on AI-generated contributions
Architecture & Codebase — including AI provenance
strongsrc/types.ts is 2,783 lines, 42× this codebase's median file
adequateThe median source file here is 66 lines. 1 file exceed 1,000 lines, the largest being 2,783. 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.
src/types.ts:1 — 2,783 lines (42× median) |
Engineering Process & SDLC Maturity
strongNo finding.
Product & Engineering Maturity
strongNo finding.
Security & Reliability Posture
adequate47 credential-shaped strings 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. 2 other matchs set aside: expired tokens, licence tokens a vendor verifies with a public key, or placeholder text where a key would go. None grants access to anything.
| 5 cited: JWT, where fakes are usual |
None of the standard security guard rails are configured
adequateThere is no disclosure policy, no automated dependency updates, no named code owners and no pre-commit configuration. None of these is load-bearing on its own. Their collective absence says that security posture here is whatever the current team happens to remember to do, which is not a posture that survives the team changing.
| checked 5 kinds of guard rail across 583 tracked files; 0 present |
8 locked dependencies have published vulnerabilities, 10 high or critical
adequate8 of 1,085 locked dependencies match 29 published advisories in OSV, 10 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: they are development dependencies.
pnpm-lock.yaml — decompress 4.2.1: GHSA-hrh2-vp3x-79xf (critical); a development dependency |
pnpm-lock.yaml — braces 3.0.3: GHSA-vfj7-8cjw-p6xm (high); a development dependency |
pnpm-lock.yaml — sharp 0.34.5: GHSA-f88m-g3jw-g9cj (high), fixed in 0.35.0; a development dependency |
51 advisories against this project in the last 24 months, 7 high or critical
adequateThe newest was published on 2026-09-29. 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 2 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 4.13.12. Answer lives in: the release you run, set against each fixed version. The record is incomplete: NVD: 3 records name hono with nothing tying them to this repository (CVE-2020-27217, CVE-2020-27220, CVE-2026-73423).
| 2026-09-29: GHSA-5r4p-p66f-jhc7 (moderate), fixed in 4.13.11: `serveStatic` decodes the request path a second time, leading to bypass of middleware on static paths |
| 2026-09-04: GHSA-hxh3-vqpv-xpqv (moderate), fixed in 4.13.7: hono/jsx renders plain strings unescaped in boundary components, leading to XSS |
| 2026-08-31: CVE-2026-81888 (moderate): @hono/oauth-providers is Authentication middleware for Hono. Prior to version 0.8.6, the built-in social login providers accept an OAuth callback even when the |
| 2026-08-26: GHSA-crvj-82cr-hjcx (moderate), fixed in 4.13.5: Hono: Query parser reads parameters after the URL fragment, causing cache-key and proxy interpretation differentials |
| 2026-08-26: GHSA-g6gw-c38x-mqfc (moderate), fixed in 4.13.5: Hono: Unbounded dot-notation nesting in `parseBody()` can cause memory exhaustion |
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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