The pressure
AI-assisted security reports are putting unprecedented pressure on curl’s maintainers despite mostly low-to-medium severity findings.
Daniel Stenberg says the curl security team is facing an unprecedented surge of credible, detailed AI-assisted vulnerability reports. Incoming reports are now 4-5 times higher than in 2024 and twice the 2025 rate, averaging more than one per day. The upside is that recent curl vulnerabilities have generally been LOW or MEDIUM severity, with the last HIGH CVE published in October 2023.
Simon Willison excerpts an article by Daniel Stenberg, pointing out that the curl project and its security team are under unprecedented pressure. The cause is not a single major vulnerability, but the flood of reports brought by AI-assisted security research. Stenberg says that the rate of incoming security reports is now about 4 to 5 times that of 2024, and also double that of 2025, averaging more than one per day. What makes it even trickier is that these reports are not low-quality noise; on the contrary, many are credible, very detailed, and quite long, so the team cannot simply ignore them and must spend significant effort reading, reproducing, judging, and responding to them.
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