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AI floods curl bug bounty program, forcing maintainer to shut it down

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The maintainer of the widely-used curl HTTP client, Daniel Stenberg, has shut down the project's bug bounty program due to an overwhelming influx of AI-generated vulnerability reports. Since 2024, the volume of these reports has surged, with AI making it trivial to create plausible-sounding but often unsubstantiated submissions. This has drastically increased the workload for the volunteer team, consuming significant time in debunking fake vulnerabilities and diverting resources from genuine security concerns. Stenberg notes that not a single AI-generated report has independently discovered a real vulnerability, highlighting a shift in the cost of security triage from AI developers to open-source maintainers. AI

IMPACT AI-generated vulnerability reports are overwhelming open-source projects, shifting the burden of triage onto maintainers and potentially hindering genuine security efforts.

RANK_REASON The article discusses the impact of AI on open-source security practices, specifically the overwhelming volume of AI-generated vulnerability reports affecting the curl project's bug bounty program.

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AI floods curl bug bounty program, forcing maintainer to shut it down

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  1. Mastodon — fosstodon.org TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    Daniel Stenberg has maintained curl for over 30 years. It's the HTTP client embedded in nearly every operating system, router, and embedded device on Earth. And

    Daniel Stenberg has maintained curl for over 30 years. It's the HTTP client embedded in nearly every operating system, router, and embedded device on Earth. And in January 2026, he did something he never expected to do: he shut down the project's bug bounty program — the one he'd…

    LINKS dev.to/…/ai-is-flooding-curl-with-low-qua…

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