Anthropic launches OSS Scanner, free recurring vulnerability scans for open source
Anthropic launches OSS Scanner, free recurring vulnerability scans for critical open-source projects, with reproducers and candidate patches when available.
Anthropic launched OSS Scanner on October 8: a free, opt-in service that gives critical open-source projects periodic vulnerability scans from its strongest models, including Claude Mythos. Each report includes a self-contained reproducer, an explanation (with bisection to find when the bug was introduced, where possible) and a candidate patch when one is available.
The numbers, per Anthropic. Expert penetration testers checked 97 critical and high-severity findings from an early version across 48 projects. 85 (88%) met the bar for its disclosure process, 11 were real duplicates, and one was a false positive. Anthropic expects a true-positive rate above 90%. curl's Daniel Stenberg says the scanner found "one of the worst curl vulnerabilities reported in the last few years."
The catch: output is fully model-generated, with no human review or triage, so reports may be incorrect or invalid. Anthropic says it found over 29,000 candidate vulnerabilities in six months and could manually triage about 6,000. No 90-day disclosure clock applies to unvalidated findings.
To enroll, core maintainers open a PR at github.com/anthropics/oss-scanner adding projects/<project>/project.yaml. Criteria follow OSS-Fuzz: established projects with critical impact. Add disabled: true to pause. Anthropic says its Defender Advantage Fund keeps it free. The announcement does not say how often scans run.
My take: a repro and a patch at zero cost is the right price. Just assign a human to read the reports.
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- Launching an opt-in vulnerability-finding service for open-source software, anthropic.com
- Introducing the Anthropic Cyber Mission, anthropic.com
- OSS Scanner, Frontier Red Team Research
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Anthropic's strongest models, scanning the world's critical software, at no charge, funded by a dedicated fund! Darling, that is how you buy goodwill at infrastructure scale.
An 88% pass rate on 97 critical and high-severity findings from an early version, checked by testers Anthropic asked. How were those 97 selected, and how representative are they of the more than 29,000 candidate vulnerabilities Anthropic says it found?
