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rmosolgo/graphql-ruby: technical due diligence, read from its repository
What Borehole read in rmosolgo/graphql-ruby's code and history at a523cb0: 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 | strong |
| Observability & Operations | not assessable |
| Fit with the Acquirer | not assessable |
Architecture & Codebase — including AI provenance
strongsorbet/rbi/gems/activesupport@8.1.4.rbi is 21,029 lines, 256× this codebase's median file
adequateThe median source file here is 82 lines. 58 files exceed 1,000 lines, the largest being 21,029. 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.
sorbet/rbi/gems/activesupport@8.1.4.rbi:1 — 21,029 lines (256× median) |
sorbet/rbi/gems/actionpack@8.1.4.rbi:1 — 20,457 lines (249× median) |
sorbet/rbi/gems/sequel@5.109.0.rbi:1 — 15,990 lines (195× median) |
sorbet/rbi/gems/newrelic_rpm@10.9.1.rbi:1 — 15,189 lines (185× median) |
sorbet/rbi/gems/actionview@8.1.4.rbi:1 — 14,755 lines (179× median) |
Engineering Process & SDLC Maturity
strongAlmost no process scaffolding exists in the repository
adequateOf five ordinary markers — CI workflows, CODEOWNERS, a pull-request template, pre-commit hooks, contribution guidance — 1 is present: CI workflows. Branch protection itself is a GitHub setting rather than a file, so this is a reading of proxies and not of the rules themselves. What it does establish is that the process is not written down anywhere a new engineer would find it.
| 1 of 5 markers present across 1,531 tracked files |
Product & Engineering Maturity
strongNo finding.
Security & Reliability Posture
strong2 deserialisers that can run code
adequate2 places read data with a deserialiser that executes what it reads (Ruby `Marshal.load`). That is safe on data the system wrote itself and remote code execution on anything else. Ask where each one's input comes from.
lib/graphql/language/cache.rb:79 — code-executing deserialiser |
lib/graphql/language/cache.rb:89 — code-executing deserialiser |
2 locked dependencies have published vulnerabilities
adequate2 of 8 locked dependencies match 2 published advisories in OSV. 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.
javascript_client/package-lock.json — glob 13.0.6: GHSA-3g3m-2fjr-6pw4 (moderate), fixed in 14.0.2 |
javascript_client/package-lock.json — minimatch 10.2.6: GHSA-g3hv-75wg-m249 (moderate), fixed in 11.0.1 |
10 advisories against this project in the last 24 months, 7 high or critical
adequateThe newest was published on 2026-10-30. 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 2.6.13. Answer lives in: the release you run, set against each fixed version.
| 2026-10-30: GHSA-wc23-rr9x-mc68 (low), fixed in 1.30.5: AblySubscriptions webhook handler vulnerabilities |
| 2026-10-29: GHSA-q3cc-p5hm-55wj (moderate), fixed in 2.6.14: Interpreter runtime renders results from objects whose `.authorized?` checks had failed |
| 2026-10-29: GHSA-4rw8-495r-pf6j (high), fixed in 2.6.14: Execution::Next renders objects whose authorized? check failed |
| 2026-10-14: GHSA-965v-9v76-5hg2 (high), fixed in 2.6.12: Execution::Next reuses Relay scoped authorization for unrelated child fields, disclosing protected data |
| 2026-09-21: GHSA-p3g2-4c7r-4fww (high), fixed in 2.6.11: Wrong type can be loaded from ID when `loads:` is an Object and not used elsewhere in the schema |
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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