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Mythos finds a curl vulnerability
Daniel Stenberg reported that Anthropic's heavily hyped Mythos model, run against curl's 178K-line codebase via the Linux Foundation's Alpha Omega program, produced five "confirmed" findings that the curl security team triaged down to a single low-severity CVE (slated for 8.21.0 in late June), plus ~20 non-vulnerability bugs — three were false positives flagging documented API behavior, and one was deemed "just a bug." Stenberg noted that prior AI scanners (AISLE, Zeropath, and OpenAI Codex Security) drove 200–300 merged bugfixes over 8–10 months, so Mythos's lighter haul reflects diminishing returns on a heavily fuzzed, audited codebase rather than weakness — and that AI tools still surface only known bug classes, not novel ones. Practitioners should treat AI code analyzers as now table-stakes (any project that hasn't run one likely has a backlog of findings waiting), pair them with traditional defenses, and discount vendor "dangerously good" framing until independent results land.
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