OSTIF, X41, and c-ares coordinated on a security audit of c-ares’s source code in spring of 2023. C-ares is a library written in C for asynchronous DNS requests, which runs on such applications as Microsoft Windows, Netware, and Android. It was developed at MIT, when a group expanded upon the…
It’s our privilege to announce that OSTIF’s sixth security audit of 2023 is with libcap! This was only possible with the fantastic work of X41 D-Sec and generous support of AWS. Libcap is a library for getting and setting POSIX.1e draft 15 capabilities. The 26 year old project is maintained…
OSTIF is pleased to announce that another audit has reached publication! A security audit of simplejson’s source code was conducted in collaboration with X41. Found during the audit process were one medium and two low severity issues, as well as nine more informational issues. In addition, custom differential fuzzing harnesses…
Falco joins a growing number of CNCF Projects that completed a third-party security audit organized by OSTIF. A follow up to their 2019 audit, the Falco project requested a new engagement due to changes in the code base since. OSTIF partnered with Quarkslab to complete the audit. An overview of…
Open Source Tech Improvement Fund (OSTIF) is proud to announce that our work with Chainguard on the supply chain review of git for Windows is complete. We'd like to thank Adolfo and John Speed at Chainguard for their work on this review, and Turbo at Github for their help connecting…
Results of the Cilium Security Engagement About Cilium Cilium is an open source software for providing, securing and observing network connectivity between container workloads, powered by eBPF sandboxing in the linux kernel. It provides cloud-native network security and observability while maintaining strong security properties itself. Similar tools without eBPF have…
Results of the KEDA Security Engagement KEDA, or the Kubernetes-based Event Driven Autoscaling project, was reviewed by Trail of Bits at the end of 2022. KEDA joins a growing list of CNCF Projects audited to improve security posture and help reach graduated status thanks to strategic partner OSTIF. A combination…
Open Source Technology Improvement Fund is happy to announce the results of the Istio Security Audit. Used by key cloud providers and technology organizations, Istio is an open service mesh platform to connect, manage, and secure microservices. The Security Audit was carried out by the team at ADA Logics. A…
Results of curl Security Audit By: Amir Montazery, OSTIF Open Source Technology Improvement Fund (OSTIF) is thrilled to announce the results of a security audit and threat model for curl. In development since 1998, curl is a command line tool and library for transferring data with URLs. Curl is used…
Open Source Technology Improvement Fund, Inc is happy to announce the results of the CloudEvents Security Assessment. CloudEvents is a specification for describing event data in a common way that simplifies event declaration and delivery across services, platforms, and beyond. CloudEvents has a robust network of contributors and active development…