Curl founder: Mythos flagged five bugs, but four were false
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Daniel Stenberg, the founder and lead developer of the curl project, recently shared the results of a security audit performed by Anthropic’s new AI model, Mythos. The model, which was marketed as being exceptionally effective at identifying security flaws in source code, was used to analyze curl’s codebase of approximately 178,000 lines.
While Mythos initially flagged five issues as "confirmed" security vulnerabilities, a subsequent manual review by the curl security team determined that only one was a genuine, low-severity vulnerability. Of the remaining four flagged issues, three were identified as false positives related to documented API behaviors, while the fourth was categorized as a non-security bug.