Not sure I understand this feedback.  Openstack has a lot of low hanging 
vulnerabilities due to legacy code.  This is the central issue, not me or LLMs. 
 



A lot of people are clamoring for sovereign cloud right now:  
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48120629 

An example:   https://bugs.launchpad.net/swift/+bug/2152384/comments/14 


ROI AI








From: Markus Klyver <[email protected]>
To: "[email protected]"<[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 15 May 2026 08:27:57 -0700
Subject: Sv: [oss-security] Coordinated Disclosure in the LLM Age



If you want to process your all your internal thoughts and personality through 
a statistical probabilistic function, then you are of course absolutely entire 
free to do so. But please keep in mind that LLMs are also overloading open 
source projects with fake PRs and "fixes" that ruin the codebase (do I have to 
mention ffmpeg and curl?), the code quality and the lives of everyone. 
 
If an LLM is used to find potential bugs, it is up to you to ensure it is a 
real bug and that you can replicate the behavior. Offloading that part to the 
LLM and the need for human knowledge is a loss for everyone involved. 
________________________________ 
Från: Tim Shephard < mailto:[email protected] > 
Skickat: den 12 maj 2026 03:22 
Till: oss-security < mailto:[email protected] >; fungi < 
mailto:[email protected] > 
Ämne: Re: [oss-security] Coordinated Disclosure in the LLM Age 
 
Thanks for starting this discussion.  I have reported a number of issues 
recently, including - #2149789,  #2150261,  #2149775,  #2150316 - three of 
which are identified by the team as critical, and one as high.  The oslo rabbit 
MITM is also critical, IMHO, but I agree it cannot be fixed without potentially 
breaking many poorly configured deployments and so must be 'Class B'.  An 
awkward situation to be sure, but the solution is understandable. 
 
For what it's worth my goal is not to 'mine security gold', rather I am trying 
to find and test potential solutions for sovereign cloud. 
 
 
 
More to the point of the thread, I think there is also a more pressing issue 
adjacent to the disclosure-process question: large, long-lived projects such as 
OpenStack have a substantial backlog of legacy vulnerabilities and insecure 
patterns that are now becoming much easier to discover with LLM assistance. 
 
That changes the risk calculation. Issues that previously required deep project 
knowledge, persistence, or specialized tooling may now be within reach of many 
more people. We should assume adversaries can use the same leverage, including 
for insider attacks and for chaining individually modest bugs across trust 
boundaries. 
 
In that sense, this feels like a generational security event. The urgent 
question is not only whether embargoed details might leak through LLM use, but 
whether maintainers can harden exposed systems faster than attackers can 
rediscover and combine old weaknesses. 
 
That argues for shorter exposure windows, more proactive hardening, and more 
attention to eliminating vulnerable patterns before they become practical 
attack paths. 
 
Furthermore, it argues for assertive use of modern LLMs, especially for code 
review and vulnerability discovery. I have volunteered to help with this for 
the OpenStack VMT, and would be happy to do so again here. 
 
 
 
Cheers, 
 
 
 
Tim. 
 
PS: LLMs helped with this email, and with more and more of the work I do. I 
think we need to move forward with these tools more deliberately and less 
fearfully. 
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