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daniel:// stenberg://onMastodon9h ago
High-Quality chaos. This is where we're at right now, security reporting wise.
https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2026/04/22/high-quality-chaos/
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Analysis Summary
AI-powered security researchers are flooding open source projects with dramatically higher volumes of bug reports — roughly double the rate from 2025 — and the quality is actually improving, not declining. The curl project is now receiving more high-quality vulnerability reports and has confirmed this trend across 30+ major projects (Linux kernel, Python, Firefox, Apache, git, etc.), suggesting this is not isolated. This creates an acute problem for maintainers: while AI tools help researchers find real bugs faster, the sheer volume means projects face backlogs of legitimate fixes they may not have the staffing to address quickly, leaving vulnerabilities public longer before patches are released.
Claims Analysis (6)
“curl project shut down bug-bounty on February 1st this year due to high frequency junk submissions”
Daniel Haxx is curl project lead with direct access to project decisions. Specific date provided in authored blog.
“In March 2026, curl project went back to Hackerone after determining GitHub was not good enough”
Author is curl maintainer describing project infrastructure decisions made within his domain.
“Security report frequency is now about double the rate from 2025, which was already double previous years”
Author presents data from curl's own submission logs with clear visual documentation in blog. Specific quantification provided but based on single project data.
“Confirmed vulnerability rate is back to and surpassing 2024 pre-AI level at 15-16%”
Project-specific metric with documented baseline. Claim is internally consistent but based on curl data alone, not cross-project verification.
“Almost every security report now uses AI to various degrees”
Author makes inference based on writing patterns and duplicate quality. Stated as observation, not verified fact. No direct tool detection.
“Multiple major open source projects confirm seeing similar AI-driven security report trends”
Author conducted Mastodon poll with responses from maintainers of 30+ named projects (Apache httpd, Linux kernel, Python, Firefox, git, etc.). Multiple independent confirmations.
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