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But for a closed source one there’s definitely no way to audit the source code.



Sure there is: tools like strace, dtrace and eBPF let you “peak under the hood” of nearly any application, not to mention disassemblers like IDA Pro and Ghidra.

I have debugged all sorts of issues with closed source applications using these tools.




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