Read 2026-10-23
kedacore/keda: technical due diligence, read from its repository
What Borehole read in kedacore/keda's code and history at 6016dc9: 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 | strong |
| Observability & Operations | strong |
| Fit with the Acquirer | not assessable |
What the repository says
README.md:20: names Cloud Native Computing Foundation
Architecture & Codebase — including AI provenance
strongNo finding.
Engineering Process & SDLC Maturity
strongNo finding.
Product & Engineering Maturity
adequate132 direct dependencies in a single manifest
adequatego.mod declares 132 direct dependencies. Each one is a maintenance obligation, a supply-chain surface and a potential licence question that transfers with the asset. The count says nothing about whether any given dependency was a good choice; it says how many such choices a buyer inherits.
go.mod — 132 declared |
Security & Reliability Posture
strongThe build runs third-party code it does not pin
adequate4 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/main-build.yml:94 — action pinned by tag |
.github/workflows/main-build.yml:103 — action pinned by tag |
2 outbound calls can wait forever
adequate2 HTTP calls use a client with no timeout (Python `requests` without `timeout=`, or Go's default client). When a dependency slows down, each one holds a worker until the connection gives up, and enough of them take the service down with the dependency.
pkg/scalers/gcp/gcp_stackdriver_client.go:111 — outbound call without a timeout |
pkg/scaling/resolver/gcp_secretmanager_handler.go:108 — outbound call without a timeout |
3 advisories against this project in the last 24 months, 2 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.
| 2026-09-23: GHSA-637c-6jxx-4rwm (critical), fixed in 2.21.0: KEDA: Privilege escalation from namespace admin to cluster admin via KEDA TriggerAuthentication |
| 2026-06-01: GHSA-6w3m-4hhp-775q (moderate), fixed in 2.20.0: KEDA has PostgreSQL connection string parameter injection via incomplete whitespace escaping |
| 2025-12-22: GHSA-c4p6-qg4m-9jmr (high), fixed in 2.17.3: KEDA has Arbitrary File Read via Insufficient Path Validation in HashiCorp Vault Service Account Credential |
Observability & Operations
strongNo 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 |
3 of 3 deployments run a single replica
adequate3 deployments set `replicas: 1`, and nothing (an autoscaler, a disruption budget) adds more. Every deploy and every node drain is downtime, and the availability the buyer inherits has a ceiling.
config/manager/manager.yaml — replicas: 1 |
config/metrics-server/deployment.yaml — replicas: 1 |
config/webhooks/webhooks.yaml — replicas: 1 |
Fit with the Acquirer
not assessableNot rated: structurally not assessable from a repository.
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