Read 2026-10-04
python-poetry/poetry: technical due diligence, read from its repository
What Borehole read in python-poetry/poetry's code and history at d4fd21e: 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 |
Architecture & Codebase — including AI provenance
strongsrc/poetry/puzzle/provider.py is 1,135 lines, 19× this codebase's median file
adequateThe median source file here is 59 lines. 1 file exceed 1,000 lines, the largest being 1,135. 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/poetry/puzzle/provider.py:1 — 1,135 lines (19× median) |
Engineering Process & SDLC Maturity
strongNo finding.
Product & Engineering Maturity
strongNo finding.
Security & Reliability Posture
adequate2 locked dependencies have published vulnerabilities, 5 high or critical in what ships
adequate2 of 78 locked dependencies match 7 published advisories in OSV, 5 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.
poetry.lock — urllib3 2.7.0: GHSA-8988-9cw3-xx77 (high), fixed in 2.8.0 |
poetry.lock — virtualenv 21.7.9: GHSA-94p9-xgh2-xp45 (high), fixed in 21.7.12 |
2 advisories against this project in the last 24 months, 1 high or critical
adequateThe newest was published on 2026-04-18. 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.
| 2026-04-18: GHSA-73h3-mf4w-8647 (low), fixed in 2.3.4: Poetry has Path Traversal in tar extraction on Python 3.10.0 - 3.10.12 and 3.11.0 - 3.11.4 |
| 2026-03-31: GHSA-2599-h6xx-hpxp (high), fixed in 2.3.3: Poetry Has Wheel Path Traversal Which Can Lead to Arbitrary File Write |
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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