The Flood is Coming And The Pipes Were Already Full
Summary: Chainguard says its Athena system has taken in more than 40,000 findings since June, 42% of them critical or high, across more than 500 projects, with more than 2,000 patches produced, and on September 28 it begins disclosing about fifty of them. Those first 50 are silent fixes - vulnerabilities already fixed at head, sometimes years ago, that never received a CVE - published as .patch files, an OSV advisory feed, and patched versions in Chainguard Libraries, while live pre-auth RCEs go through Akrites on embargo.
What's compelling: A model run of about six hours against one heavily fuzzed open source project returned more than a dozen validated vulnerabilities, most pre-authentication remote code execution, and the author says attacker capability is advancing faster than the industry's disclosure processes can absorb the findings.
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