The certification gate accepts cached coverage claims without verifying the passport or evidence it certifies.
- Category
- Excessive Agency
- Confidence
- 99% confidence
- Finding
The gate trusts editable lgd_state.json fields, including classes_covered and stored hashes, without recomputing passport integrity, validating evidence blocks, or checking current evidence files. A project contributor can forge these fields, or remove or alter previously scanned evidence, and still receive a PASS certificate and badges. This is particularly dangerous for a certification tool because its primary output presents unverified claims as successful governance review.
- Content
