Even non-developers can fix security vulnerabilities in code at The Big Fix
Blog post from Snyk
A Snyk marketing team member describes using The Big Fix, a community security event, to make an open-source contribution despite limited technical experience. After creating a free Snyk account, connecting it to GitHub, and scanning a fork of the Terratest infrastructure-testing library, the author identified a straightforward vulnerability involving an outdated Docker image and used Snyk’s automated fix feature to generate a pull request. Recognizing that fixing only the fork had limited impact, the author copied the change into a pull request for the original Terratest repository. The account presents The Big Fix as an accessible process for scanning projects, addressing vulnerabilities through pull requests, engaging with the DevSecCon community, and earning rewards, while noting that the month-long event culminated in a 24-hour Big Fix-a-Thon and had already produced hundreds of thousands of identified vulnerabilities and tens of thousands of fixes.
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