Read 2026-11-03
owasp-amass/amass: technical due diligence, read from its repository
What Borehole read in owasp-amass/amass's code and history at a284d25: 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 | adequate |
| Engineering Process & SDLC Maturity | adequate |
| Product & Engineering Maturity | adequate |
| Security & Reliability Posture | adequate |
| Observability & Operations | adequate |
| Fit with the Acquirer | not assessable |
Architecture & Codebase — including AI provenance
adequate2 base images float: no version, or `latest`
adequate2 of 4 `FROM` lines in product Dockerfiles name an image without a version, or with `latest`. Each build pulls whatever the registry serves that day, so the image that ships can change without a commit, and last month's build cannot be reproduced. Pin a version, or a digest.
Dockerfile:7 — base image without a version |
engine/Dockerfile:7 — base image without a version |
Engineering Process & SDLC Maturity
adequateLittle of the recent change carries a trace of review
adequateIn the last 24 months, 42 of 680 commits (6.2%) carry any trace of review: a merge, a pull-request reference, a Reviewed-by or Reviewed-on trailer, a Closes/Fixes reference, a maintainer's sign-off on someone else's change, or a change applied by someone other than its author. That is low but not absent. Review may happen in a workflow this history does not record; a buyer should ask how change is approved before it ships.
| 42 of 680 commits in the last 24 months carry review evidence; 23.8% across all 2,879 |
Product & Engineering Maturity
adequateGo 1.23 is past end of life
adequateThe code is pinned to Go 1.23 (end of life 2025-08-12). None of these receives security fixes any more; the first stopped on 2025-08-12. Moving off an unsupported runtime is rarely a one-line change, so a buyer should ask whether the upgrade is planned and what it touches.
engine/Dockerfile — Go 1.23, end of life 2025-08-12 |
8% of bug fixes add or change a test
adequateOf 128 fixes in the last 24 months, 10 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.
| 10 of 128 |
Security & Reliability Posture
adequateNone 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 224 tracked files; 0 present |
The build runs third-party code it does not pin
adequate7 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/docker.yml:18 — action pinned by tag |
.github/workflows/docker.yml:24 — action pinned by tag |
Observability & Operations
adequateNo telemetry or error reporting is wired in anywhere
adequateNone of 220 readable files references an instrumentation, metrics or error-reporting library. If this system is in production, nobody learns that it broke from the system itself — they learn it from a customer. That is a reliability finding before it is an observability one.
| searched 220 tracked text files for 16 known instrumentation libraries; manifests for metrics, tracing and error-reporting families; locked dependencies for the packages that emit; 0 matched |
One 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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