Anthropic launches free vulnerability scanner for open-source code
MarkTechPost: Anthropic Launches OSS Scanner, a Free AI Vulnerability Scanner
Anthropic has launched OSS Scanner, a free, opt-in vulnerability scanner for critical open-source projects. The Anthropic OSS Scanner runs the company’s strongest models, including Claude Mythos, against enrolled codebases. Reports go straight to maintainers without human review. That trade delivers faster findings, but shifts triage work onto project teams. 11 days after the October 8 launch, Anthropic reported 77 critical and 803 high model-rated findings. TL;DR Scale: 114 projec
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Anthropic has launched a free vulnerability scanner that uses its language models to automatically audit open-source code for security problems. The scanner runs audits on maintainers' enrolled projects without human review before sending reports, which speeds up findings but places triage responsibility on project teams. In its first 11 days, the scanner identified 77 critical and 803 high-severity findings, with 88 percent of audited findings meeting standards for coordinated vulnerability disclosure. The service operates on Anthropic's infrastructure at no cost to maintainers, who enroll by submitting a pull request with their project's Dockerfile.
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