Project security policy

The MCUboot team takes security, vulnerabilities, and weaknesses seriously.

Reporting security issues

You should report security issues either using our page at [Hackerone] (https://hackerone.com/mcuboot?type=team) or contacting directly the current maintainers of the project:

David Brown: davidb@davidb.org or david.brown@linaro.org
Fabio Utzig: utzig@apache.org

If you wish to send an encrypted email, you may use these PGP keys:

    pub   rsa4096 2011-10-14 [SC]
          DAFD760825AE2636AEA9CB19E6BA9F5C5E54DF82
    uid           [ultimate] David Brown <davidb@davidb.org>
    uid           [ultimate] David Brown <david.brown@linaro.org>
    sub   rsa4096 2011-10-14 [E]

and

    pub   rsa4096 2017-07-28 [SC]
          126087C7E725625BC7E89CC7537097EDFD4A7339
    uid           [ unknown] Fabio Utzig <utzig@apache.org>
    uid           [ unknown] Fabio Utzig <utzig@utzig.org>
    sub   rsa4096 2017-07-28 [E]

Please include the word “SECURITY” as well as “MCUboot” in the subject of any message.

We will make our best effort to respond in a timely manner. Most vulnerabilities found within published code will undergo an embargo of 90 days to allow time fixes to be developed and deployed.

Vulnerability advisories

Vulnerability reports and published fixes will be reported as follows:

Issues will be entered into MCUboot’s security advisory system on GitHub, with the interested parties (including the reporter) added as viewers.
The release notes will contain a reference to any allocated CVE(s).
When the embargo is lifted, the security advisory page will be made public, and the public CVE database will be updated with all relevant information.