Read 2026-10-04
keepassxreboot/keepassxc: technical due diligence, read from its repository
What Borehole read in keepassxreboot/keepassxc's code and history at 9e0f57a: 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 | not assessable |
| Fit with the Acquirer | not assessable |
What the repository says
- Releases are cut from another branch than the one surveyed
.github/CONTRIBUTING.md:80: states a policy on AI-generated contributionsREADME.md:3: names OpenSSF
Architecture & Codebase — including AI provenance
strongsrc/gui/styles/base/BaseStyle.cpp is 4,861 lines, 59× this codebase's median file
adequateThe median source file here is 82 lines. 11 files exceed 1,000 lines, the largest being 4,861. 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/gui/styles/base/BaseStyle.cpp:1 — 4,861 lines (59× median) |
src/gui/DatabaseWidget.cpp:1 — 2,847 lines (34× median) |
src/gui/MainWindow.cpp:1 — 2,261 lines (27× median) |
src/gui/entry/EditEntryWidget.cpp:1 — 1,817 lines (22× median) |
src/browser/BrowserService.cpp:1 — 1,788 lines (21× median) |
Engineering Process & SDLC Maturity
strongNo finding.
Product & Engineering Maturity
adequateFixes are 54% of recent work, up from 33%
adequateIn the last two quarters 54% of commits were fixes, against 33% in the quarters before. Rising fix work usually means quality debt is coming due, and it takes time that new work would have had.
| 35%, 73%, 37%, 30%, 41%, 29%, 22%, 39% |
Releases are cut from another branch than the one surveyed
adequateThe newest release, 2.7.12, is not on the branch this survey read; the newest release on it is 2.7.1. The shipped product may differ from what this report describes. Survey the release branch too.
| tag 2.7.12 |
Security & Reliability Posture
strong7 advisories against this project in the last 24 months, 1 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. Whether 7 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 2.7.1. Answer lives in: the release you run, set against each fixed version.
| 2026-09-23: GHSA-rq29-wgrv-xgh4 (low), fixed in 2.8.0: Heap ouf-of-bounds via integer overflow in legacy .kdb import |
| 2026-09-23: GHSA-mffq-j98j-wfr2 (low), fixed in 2.8.0: Pageant SSH agent key sharing uses predictable shared memory name |
| 2026-09-23: GHSA-3448-gh8j-3227 (moderate), fixed in 2.8.0: Out-of-bounds write in browser integration response encryption with oversized database responses |
| 2026-09-23: GHSA-2vm2-vmc3-vccr (moderate), fixed in 2.8.0: Browser extension allows creating references to other entries enabling limited data exfiltration |
| 2026-09-23: GHSA-4642-49vv-4p43 (moderate), fixed in 2.8.0: Heap use-after-free in KeePass1 (KDB) importer via unpruned m_entryUuids map |
Observability & Operations
not assessableNot rated: only 4 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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