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Known gaps

Open weaknesses. Issues on krz/gitbay are public; this page gives the title and the consequence, not a reproduction. The current list is the open issues labelled security: https://gitbay.org/krz/gitbay/issues?label=security. The table below is what the 2026-09-27 review found; remove a row when its issue closes.

Filed

Issue Area Gap Severity
#305 Recovery The off-host secret.key has not been shown to open a restored database; without it a restore does not start high

Not filed

Area Gap Severity
Audit The hash chain is unkeyed, so whoever can write the database can edit a row and recompute every later hash; removing the newest audit rows, or writing new rows under their freed ids, needs no recomputing at all. Neither is detectable from the database; only comparing gitbayd admin audit verify's last id and hash with the daemon's journal shows it. Rows written by gitbayd shell (ssh.mode = "system") and host admin commands have no journal copy, and the refusal caps are per process, so under that mode each connection counts separately low
Availability Under ssh.mode = "system" each SSH session is a separate gitbayd shell process, so the pack-generation limit (internal/packlimit, #262) cannot count SSH clones across sessions; only HTTP and git:// share a budget there low
Availability Pushes have no concurrency limit; max_pack_bytes bounds each one, not how many run at once medium
Availability repo download (SSH, API) runs git archive outside the pack limit; only its two-minute deadline and 512 MiB cap bound it low
Availability An HTTP or git:// client that disconnects while queued for a pack slot keeps its place until pack_queue_wait runs out; only SSH notices the disconnect low

Questions an auditor will ask that have no answer yet

Question Status
What is the measured recovery time? 8m43s from the offsite copy to a clone, laptop drill 2026-09-29, no host provisioning (Admin wiki)
How many concurrent clones does the host sustain? unmeasured (#262)
Have the collaboration features been used by independent users? no; one human user, tests only