Jailbreak for A8 through A11, T2 devices, on iOS/iPadOS/tvOS 15.0, bridgeOS 5.0 and higher.
This report summarizes scanner evidence for palera1n/palera1n, a C project with 6,558 GitHub stars. SynthScan examined 11,092 lines of code across 41 source files, recording 162 pattern matches distributed across 1 syntactic category. The legacy adjusted pattern signal is 9.8 (Moderate pattern signal); it is not an authorship estimate.
Use the findings to ask whether maintainers can explain intent, verify dependencies, simplify unnecessary scaffolding, and focus review effort. Risk Payload v1 adds ownership, supply-chain, over-engineering, and review-effort vectors when available. These are prompts for human verification, not probabilities, security findings, or measured maintenance costs.
Use each vector to guide manual verification of the underlying findings.
Can maintainers explain intent, assumptions, and trade-offs? 162 finding(s).
Are imports declared and package/API names verified? 0 finding(s).
Are wrappers, guards, and repeated structures necessary? 0 finding(s).
Which changes need focused human review? 162 finding(s).
This chart tracks the legacy adjusted pattern score across scan runs. Changes can reflect source changes, scan coverage, or detector/scoring versions; they do not measure AI adoption or prove that a team refactored code. Compare runs only when their scoring versions are compatible. The dashed line tracks the raw pattern-hit count.
Groups findings by configured severity weight. Severity is not a confidence estimate, security rating, or proof that a package is missing. Verify imports against the project's manifests and inspect each finding in its local design context.
This horizontal bar chart shows where configured pattern scores accumulate across directories. Treat the bars as locations to inspect, not as evidence of authorship or code quality. Use the file-level findings to decide whether a directory needs a focused ownership, dependency, complexity, or review check.
The scanner identified 162 distinct pattern matches across 1 syntactic category. Each entry below represents a discrete location in the source code where the engine recorded a detector match to inspect in context. Expand any category row to inspect the individual file paths, line numbers, code snippets, and the lexical context (CODE, COMMENT, or STRING) in which each match was detected.
Reading the findings table: The Severity column indicates the configured finding weight (CRITICAL / HIGH / MEDIUM / LOW). The Context column identifies whether the match occurred inside executable code, an inline comment, or a string literal — legacy comment-context matches receive a ×1.5 score weight. The ⚡ bolt icon marks clustered matches: three or more patterns within a 10-line window, each receiving an additional ×1.5 density multiplier under the legacy scoring model.
| Severity | File | Line | Snippet | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LOW | include/palerain.h | 1 | #ifndef PALERAIN_H | COMMENT |
| LOW | include/palerain.h | 21 | #define palerain_option_version 129 | COMMENT |
| LOW | include/paleinfo.h | 21 | // (UINT64_C(1) << 3) /* Deprecated and removed */ | COMMENT |
| LOW | include/paleinfo.h | 41 | #define palerain_option_overlay (UINT64_C(1) << 23) /* there is an overlay (should always be true) */ | COMMENT |
| LOW | include/tui.h | 1 | #ifndef TUI_H | COMMENT |
| LOW | include/tui.h | 21 | COMMENT | |
| LOW | include/tui.h | 41 | #define BG_YELLOW 43 | COMMENT |
| LOW | include/ANSI-color-codes.h | 1 | /* | COMMENT |
| LOW | include/ANSI-color-codes.h | 21 | #define BBLK "\033[1;30m" | COMMENT |
| LOW | include/ANSI-color-codes.h | 41 | #define BLKB "\033[40m" | COMMENT |
| LOW | include/ANSI-color-codes.h | 61 | #define HBLK "\033[0;90m" | COMMENT |
| LOW | include/ANSI-color-codes.h | 81 | #define reset "\033[0m" | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/log.c | 1 | #include <time.h> | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/tui_screen_jailbreak.c | 1 | #ifdef TUI | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/lock_vars.c | 1 | #include <stdio.h> | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/exec_checkra1n.c | 1 | #include <stdio.h> | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/credits.c | 1 | #include <stdio.h> | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/devhelper.c | 1 | #include <stdio.h> | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/devhelper.c | 21 | #include <inttypes.h> | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/tui_screen_main.c | 1 | #ifdef TUI | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/usb_iokit.c | 21 | * AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/tui_main.c | 1 | #ifdef TUI | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/tui_screen_enter_recovery.c | 1 | #ifdef TUI | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/tui_screen_enter_dfu.c | 1 | #ifdef TUI | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/tui_screen_options.c | 1 | #ifdef TUI | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/override_file.c | 1 | #include <palerain.h> | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/main.c | 1 | #include <stdio.h> | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/dfuhelper.c | 1 | #include <stdio.h> | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/dfuhelper.c | 21 | #include <libimobiledevice/lockdown.h> | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/pongo_helper.c | 1 | #include <errno.h> | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/usb_libusb.c | 21 | * AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/optparse.c | 1 | #include <stdio.h> | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/tools/counterfeit_elf.h | 81 | #define ELFMAG3 'F' | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/tools/counterfeit_elf.h | 101 | COMMENT | |
| LOW | src/tools/counterfeit_elf.h | 121 | #define EI_PAD 9 | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/tools/counterfeit_elf.h | 141 | #define EM_386 3 | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/tools/counterfeit_elf.h | 161 | #define EM_ARM 40 | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/tools/counterfeit_elf.h | 181 | #define EM_ST100 60 | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/tools/counterfeit_elf.h | 201 | #define EM_HUANY 81 | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/tools/counterfeit_elf.h | 221 | #define EM_SNP1K 99 | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/tools/counterfeit_elf.h | 241 | #define EM_CE 119 | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/tools/counterfeit_elf.h | 261 | #define EM_QDSP6 164 | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/tools/counterfeit_elf.h | 281 | #define EM_STM8 186 | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/tools/counterfeit_elf.h | 301 | #define EM_KMX32 211 | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/tools/counterfeit_elf.h | 361 | #define SHN_HIPROC 0xff1f | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/tools/counterfeit_elf.h | 381 | #define SHT_SHLIB 10 | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/tools/counterfeit_elf.h | 401 | #define SHT_HISUNW 0x6fffffff | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/tools/counterfeit_elf.h | 481 | #define SYMINFO_FLG_COPY 0x0004 | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/tools/counterfeit_elf.h | 501 | #define STB_GNU_UNIQUE 10 | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/tools/counterfeit_elf.h | 601 | #define PT_NUM 8 | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/tools/counterfeit_elf.h | 621 | #define PF_R (1 << 2) | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/tools/counterfeit_elf.h | 641 | #define NT_LWPSTATUS 16 | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/tools/counterfeit_elf.h | 661 | #define NT_PPC_TM_CPPR 0x10e | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/tools/counterfeit_elf.h | 681 | #define NT_ARM_TLS 0x401 | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/tools/counterfeit_elf.h | 721 | #define DT_NULL 0 | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/tools/counterfeit_elf.h | 741 | #define DT_PLTREL 20 | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/tools/counterfeit_elf.h | 761 | #define DT_PROCNUM DT_MIPS_NUM | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/tools/counterfeit_elf.h | 781 | #define DT_GNU_HASH 0x6ffffef5 | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/tools/counterfeit_elf.h | 801 | #define DT_RELCOUNT 0x6ffffffa | COMMENT |
| LOW | src/tools/counterfeit_elf.h | 821 | COMMENT | |
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