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supabase/auth: technical due diligence, read from its repository
What Borehole read in supabase/auth's code and history at 9eb0924: 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 | strong |
| Fit with the Acquirer | not assessable |
Architecture & Codebase — including AI provenance
strongclient/admin/client.go is 6,966 lines, 59× this codebase's median file
adequateThe median source file here is 118 lines. 3 files exceed 1,180 lines, the largest being 6,966. 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.
client/admin/client.go:1 — 6,966 lines (59× median) |
internal/conf/configuration.go:1 — 1,491 lines (12× median) |
internal/models/user.go:1 — 1,233 lines (10× median) |
Engineering Process & SDLC Maturity
strongNo finding.
Product & Engineering Maturity
strongNo finding.
Security & Reliability Posture
strong4 SQL statements built from strings
adequate4 places in product code build SQL by formatting or joining strings rather than passing parameters. In each, what the code shows going in is a table or column name, a constant, or something the line does not show, not a request's value. Ask whether any value reaches these strings, rather than a parameter.
internal/models/connection.go:80 — SQL built from a string |
internal/models/oauth_client_state.go:34 — SQL built from a string |
internal/models/webauthn_challenge.go:62 — SQL built from a string |
2 locked dependencies have published vulnerabilities, 1 high or critical
adequate2 of 184 locked dependencies match 4 published advisories in OSV, 1 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.
2 advisories against this project in the last 24 months, 1 high or critical
adequateThe newest was published on 2026-03-11. 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. The record is incomplete: NVD: its keyword search for 'auth' is too broad to read whole (73,700 records); NVD: 6 records name auth with nothing tying them to this repository (CVE-2001-1379, CVE-2002-0735, CVE-2004-0041, …).
| 2026-03-11: GHSA-v36f-qvww-8w8m (moderate), fixed in 2.185.0: Insecure Apple and Azure authentication with ID tokens |
| 2024-11-06: GHSA-3529-5m8x-rpv3 (high), fixed in v2.163.1: Email link poisoning vulnerability |
Observability & Operations
strongNo 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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