Depthfirst reports 105 flaws across Ruby projects with 8.6 billion downloads

The AI security startup says 62 findings are acknowledged by maintainers, after related flaws enabled code execution in self-managed GitLab.

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Depthfirst's findings show how native code can undermine a memory-safe language, while the GitLab exploit tests whether AI security agents can connect buried bugs to reachable product risk.

Illustration of Depthfirst exposing 105 flaws in widely used Ruby projects, showing fragmented code and warning icons tied to self-managed GitLab.

Qasim Mithani, Andrea Michi (@andreamichi), and Daniele Perito's Depthfirst said on July 27th that its AI security platform found and validated 105 vulnerabilities across 34 Ruby projects whose packages have recorded more than 8.6 billion combined downloads.…

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