Security context

What an agent needs to avoid regressing past fixes and find the next vuln in this repo.

graykode/abtop
main @ 7d16183
7
Fixes
0
CVEs
HIGH
Peak severity
33.3%
Coverage
Highlights
Denial of Service: 3 prior fixes. Scrutinize any change in this area.
src/app.rs: most-fixed (2 issues). Treat as high-risk during review.
1 high-severity fix in this history; regressions here are high-impact.
Recurring patterns

The bug types that recur here, drawn from past fixes, not open vulnerabilities.

Denial of Service: Subprocess execution and thread-spawning operations lacked explicit deadlines and bounded timeouts, potentially allowing leaked descendant processes to block helper threads indefinitely and exhaust system resources.
Insecure Temporary File: Using predictable paths in public temporary directories during executable update downloading via curl created high-risk race conditions and symlink replacement vulnerabilities.
Information Disclosure: External SQLite database paths lacked strict canonicalization and prefix verification prior to invocation of external system commands, allowing symlink-driven arbitrary file disclosure.