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suitenumerique/docs: technical due diligence, read from its repository
What Borehole read in suitenumerique/docs's code and history at 6c730f7: 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 | adequate |
| Fit with the Acquirer | not assessable |
What the repository says
.github/PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md:35: states a policy on AI-generated contributions
Architecture & Codebase — including AI provenance
strongsrc/backend/core/api/viewsets.py is 3,476 lines, 49× this codebase's median file
adequateThe median source file here is 70 lines. 5 files exceed 1,000 lines, the largest being 3,476. 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/backend/core/api/viewsets.py:1 — 3,476 lines (49× median) |
src/frontend/apps/impress/src/cunningham/cunningham-tokens.ts:1 — 2,460 lines (35× median) |
src/backend/core/models.py:1 — 2,402 lines (34× median) |
src/backend/impress/settings.py:1 — 1,859 lines (26× median) |
src/backend/core/api/serializers.py:1 — 1,111 lines (15× median) |
Engineering Process & SDLC Maturity
strongTests are retried until they pass
adequateThe suite is configured to retry failing tests (src/frontend/apps/e2e/playwright.config.ts). A retry turns a flaky test green without saying why it failed, so a green build means the tests passed eventually. Ask how many retries a typical run needs, and which tests need them.
src/frontend/apps/e2e/playwright.config.ts:27 — test retry |
Product & Engineering Maturity
strongNo finding.
Security & Reliability Posture
strong1 environment file is committed
adequatesrc/frontend/apps/impress/.env is tracked in git. Environment files are where credentials usually live, and committing one usually means nobody decided how secrets reach the running application. Whatever is in it is in the history for good. Check 05.1 says whether it holds anything credential-shaped.
src/frontend/apps/impress/.env — committed environment file |
The build runs third-party code it does not pin
adequate3 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; 1 step pipes a download straight into a shell. 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-publish.yml:85 — action pinned by tag |
.github/workflows/docker-publish.yml:94 — action pinned by tag |
bin/start-kind.sh:2 — download piped into a shell |
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.
gitlint/gitlint_emoji.py:30 — outbound call without a timeout |
src/backend/core/instrumentation.py:30 — outbound call without a timeout |
7 of 7 Kubernetes workloads declare no resource limits
adequate7 workload manifests set no CPU or memory limits. One pod that leaks memory or spins can starve everything else on its node, and the scheduler cannot plan capacity for what it cannot see.
src/helm/impress/templates/backend_deployment.yaml — workload with no limits |
src/helm/impress/templates/celery_worker_deployment.yaml — workload with no limits |
src/helm/impress/templates/docspec_deployment.yaml — workload with no limits |
8 locked dependencies have published vulnerabilities, 7 high or critical
adequate8 of 2,623 locked dependencies match 24 published advisories in OSV, 7 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. This lockfile pins development tools alongside what ships and does not say which is which, so some of these may never reach a user.
src/mail/yarn.lock — undici 6.29.0: GHSA-2m5v-pch6-74hx (high), fixed in 6.29.1 |
src/mail/yarn.lock — undici 7.30.0: GHSA-2m5v-pch6-74hx (high), fixed in 7.30.1 |
src/yhub-server/yarn.lock — decode-uri-component 0.2.2: GHSA-vcc3-ghjq-m6fr (moderate), fixed in 0.5.0 |
6 advisories against this project in the last 24 months, 2 high or critical
adequateThe newest was published on 2026-10-15. 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 3 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 6.0.4. Answer lives in: the release you run, set against each fixed version. The record is incomplete: NVD: 61 records name docs with nothing tying them to this repository (CVE-2019-13175, CVE-2020-35467, CVE-2023-30873, …).
| 2026-10-15: CVE-2026-111169 (low): La Suite Docs through 6.0.1 contains an authorization bypass vulnerability that allows authenticated users to write comments into threads of documents they cann |
| 2026-09-16: CVE-2026-92800 (high): Docs before 5.4.1 fails to properly revoke websocket collaboration connections when access is revoked at parent documents. Attackers with revoked access can ret |
| 2026-09-14: CVE-2026-91081 (moderate): Docs through 5.6.1 contains a server-side request forgery vulnerability in the cors-proxy endpoint that allows anonymous attackers to make outbound requests by |
| 2026-08-21: GHSA-p8v2-wjj3-3j9w (moderate), fixed in 5.4.0: Unauthenticated Enumeration of Public Documents via Predictable Search Path |
| 2026-01-15: GHSA-4rwv-ghwh-9rv6 (high), fixed in 4.4.0: Stored XSS via Interlinking Block |
Observability & Operations
adequateNo structured logging library is in use
adequateNothing references a structured logging library. Logs that are written to be read by a person are not searchable by a machine, which means incident response here is proportional to how well someone remembers the codebase rather than to what the tooling can find.
| searched 1,129 files for 10 structured logging libraries; 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 |
Fit with the Acquirer
not assessableNot rated: structurally not assessable from a repository.
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