2026-08-13 disclosed FIPS Nine findings in a Rust mesh network, disclosed privately before anything was said in public
- Target
- https://github.com/jmcorgan/fips
- What we found
- An agentic SAST pass over the project at a pinned commit produced 54 raw candidates. We adjudicated every one by reading the source ourselves and reported 9, of which 7 held up under that review. They sat in three areas: a node's sessions being taken down by a party that could merely reach it, traffic being attributed to the wrong node, and a node's path MTU being steered. We also downgraded the tool's own CRITICAL rating ourselves, because its preconditions required a position on the network the rating did not assume. Severities on this page are ours, never a scanner's.
- Patch status
- Reported privately to the maintainer, who replied within a week and shipped fixes across v0.4.2 and v0.5.0, and who has since stated that the security review cycle behind those releases is closed. Two things we still will not say: we did not re-read the fixed code against our own 9 findings, so calling them verified would be our word rather than a measurement, and the release notes credit unsolicited reviews without naming anyone, so we do not claim those commits as ours. The disclosure route is what this entry evidences: the maintainer had the findings, and had shipped, before any of it was described in public.
- Evidence
- Write-up
- Read the write-up