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We Scanned the 100 Most Popular AI Tools for Vulnerabilities

We built an automated vulnerability scanner that evaluates AI agent repositories against multiple security dimensions. Here are the results from scanning the top 100.

Key Findings

Metric Value
Repos scanned 100
High risk (score >= 50) 9
Medium risk (25-49) 66
Low risk (<25) 25
No security signals ~75%
Average trust score 75.4/100

Most Exposed Projects

  1. AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui — 160K stars, trust C, vulnerability score 55
  2. f/prompts.chat — 145K stars, trust C, vulnerability score 55
  3. rasbt/LLMs-from-scratch — 85K stars, trust C, vulnerability score 55
  4. hacksider/Deep-Live-Cam — 79K stars, trust C, vulnerability score 55
  5. n8n-io/n8n — 177K stars, trust C-, vulnerability score 45

These are public repositories with massive adoption and minimal security infrastructure.

What Makes a Project "High Risk"?

Our vulnerability score (0-100) combines:

  • Security signals (30 points) — SECURITY.md, dependency scanning, known advisories
  • Trust-popularity gap (25 points) — high stars but low trust rating
  • Trust grade (20 points) — overall quality and maintenance rating
  • Known advisories (20 points) — CVEs in GitHub Advisory Database

How to Check Your Dependencies

pip install agent-security
agent-security scan requirements.txt
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This checks each dependency against a trust database of 204K+ AI agents and tools, flagging CVEs, license issues, and maintenance problems.

Full Report

See the complete data at nerq.ai/vulnerable.


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