🛡️Curl Team Buried Under AI-Assisted Security Reports
TL;DR
Simon Willison surfaces curl maintainer Daniel Stenberg on the deluge of AI-assisted vulnerability reports hitting the project. The rate is now 4-5x higher than 2024, and enough are credible to demand triage time the volunteer team doesn't have.
Simon Willison surfaces curl maintainer Daniel Stenberg on the deluge of AI-assisted vulnerability reports hitting the project. The rate is now 4-5x higher than 2024, and enough are credible to demand triage time the volunteer team doesn't have.
Key Points
Incoming security reports running 4-5x the 2024 rate, roughly double the recent pace
Reports are increasingly credible AI-assisted submissions, harder to dismiss outright
curl is volunteer-maintained, so the triage load falls on a small team
Flagged via Daniel Stenberg, curl's longtime lead maintainer
Why It Matters
AI lowers the cost of filing plausible bug reports faster than maintainers can vet them, turning open-source security triage into the new spam problem.
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