The curl project now handles incoming vulnerability reports via its GitHub issue tracker, utilizing "vuln:" labels to triage bugs, assess severity levels, and draft CVE advisories publicly. Although CVE numbers and advisory pull requests appear in open repositories ahead of time, metadata is withheld from the formal CVE database until the corresponding release ships. Daniel Stenberg emphasized that the team will continue processing AI-generated reports despite their verbosity, as ignoring them could leave valid vulnerabilities unresolved.
Key points
External contributors are invited to review vulnerability claims and debate severity rati…: External contributors are invited to review vulnerability claims and debate severity ratings prior to merging a fix.
Daniel Stenberg affirmed that AI-assisted vulnerability reports often contain genuine sec…: Daniel Stenberg affirmed that AI-assisted vulnerability reports often contain genuine security flaws that cannot safely be ignored.
The project prioritizes user safety over report origins, refusing to discard submissions…: The project prioritizes user safety over report origins, refusing to discard submissions simply because they were written using artificial intelligence.
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Let me now describe how you can follow along this process and help out. Add your opinions, comments and assessments to help the curl project stay honest, do even better and manage the load.
Issues
Vulnerability reports are now submitted directly in curl’s issue tracker on GitHub. Judging by the initial set received, the persons submitting them do not particularly highlight the security angle in the title but it is instead implied or specified in the issue description. I hope people react if we somehow miss it.
Tags
We use a set of tags to manage vulnerability reports on GitHub. They are all prefixed by vuln:.
vuln:ASSESS
Every submitted issue that has a claimed or suspected security angle – a possible vulnerability – first gets the vuln:ASSESS tag set (by one of the curl maintainers). This tag marks the issue as one that we should evaluate, assess and determine first if it is a vulnerability, and if it is, what severity.
Anyone is free to leave their comment and thinking to help us come to a conclusion.
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