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# Security Reporting Process
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Please report any security issue via
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[Private Vulnerability Reporting](https://github.com/opentofu/opentofu/security/advisories/new) where the issue will be triaged appropriately.
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Thank you in advance for helping to keep OpenTofu secure.
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# Security Release Process
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OpenTofu is a large growing community of volunteers, users, and vendors. The OpenTofu community has
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adopted this security disclosure and response policy to ensure we responsibly handle critical
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issues.
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## Product Security Team (PST)
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Security vulnerabilities should be handled quickly and sometimes privately. The primary goal of this
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process is to reduce the total time users are vulnerable to publicly known exploits.
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The Product Security Team (PST) is responsible for organizing the entire response including internal
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communication and external disclosure but will need help from relevant developers to successfully
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run this process.
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The initial Product Security Team will consist of members of Steering Committee and Core Development Team. In the future we may
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decide to have a subset of maintainers work on security response given that this process is time
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consuming.
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## Disclosures
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### Private Disclosure Processes
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The OpenTofu community asks that all suspected vulnerabilities be privately and responsibly disclosed
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via the [reporting policy](README.md#reporting-security-vulnerabilities).
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### Public Disclosure Processes
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If you know of a publicly disclosed security vulnerability please IMMEDIATELY submit a report via
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[Private Vulnerability Reporting](https://github.com/opentofu/opentofu/security/advisories/new) to inform the Product
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Security Team (PST) about the vulnerability so they may start the patch, release, and communication
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process.
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If possible the PST will ask the person making the public report if the issue can be handled via a
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private disclosure process (for example if the full exploit details have not yet been published). If
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the reporter denies the request for private disclosure, the PST will move swiftly with the fix and
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release process. In extreme cases GitHub can be asked to delete the issue but this generally isn't
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necessary and is unlikely to make a public disclosure less damaging.
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## Patch, Release, and Public Communication
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For each vulnerability a member of the PST will volunteer to lead coordination with the "Fix Team"
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and is responsible for sending disclosure emails to the rest of the community. This lead will be
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referred to as the "Fix Lead."
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The role of Fix Lead should rotate round-robin across the PST.
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Note that given the current size of the OpenTofu community it is likely that the PST is the same as
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the "Fix team." (I.e., all maintainers). The PST may decide to bring in additional contributors
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for added expertise depending on the area of the code that contains the vulnerability.
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The Fix Lead drives the schedule using their best judgment based on severity and development time. If the Fix Lead is
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dealing with a public disclosure all timelines become ASAP (assuming the vulnerability has a CVSS
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score >= 4). If the fix relies on another upstream project's disclosure timeline, that
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will adjust the process as well. We will work with the upstream project to fit their timeline and
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best protect our users.
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