We at OSTIF are excited to announce the 2023 Cloud Native Computing Foundation Audit Impact Report. This is the second year of the program between the two organizations, which combines funding and projects from the CNCF with OSTIF’s auditing resources to synthesize security engagements. Over the last two years, this collaboration…
Open Source Technology Improvement Fund (OSTIF) is beyond proud to announce the completion of our 50th security audit. Since 2015, the nonprofit organization has worked to provide actualized security support to open source projects in a way that is transparent, public, and impactful. We work with open source projects that…
This year for OSTIF has been beyond our expectations and hopes. We’ve worked hard for open source security, bonding with new collaborators while growing our network to provide projects with help from experts. We completed almost 200% more projects than in 2022, hired a new full-time employee, and forged partnerships…
OSTIF is proud to announce the publication of the security audit of nvm in collaboration with 7ASecurity! nvm is a version manager for node.js, which works on any POSIX-compliant shell for Linux, Mac, and Windows. For this audit, 7ASecurity performed a whitebox security review and penetration testing upon the open…
Open source project Kyverno completed a security audit by OSTIF and Ada Logics in the fall of 2023 in continued partnership with the CNCF. This engagement was organized to be a holistic review of the Kubernetes policy engine, including threat modeling, manual code auditing, fuzzing and supply-chain review. The security…
Open source project Mosquitto underwent a security audit with OSTIF and Trail of Bits in collaboration with the Eclipse Foundation. The project, which is a message broker for the MQTT protocol, is designed to connect the Internet of Things. Projects that are open to the internet have increased landscape exposure…
OSTIF is proud to announce the publication of a security audit on the Kubernetes cluster tooling Flux in collaboration with Trail of Bits. Performed over four engineer weeks, this is the second security audit with OSTIF that Flux has undertaken, the first having taken place in November 2021. Repeated security…
OSTIF is pleased to announce the completion of a security audit of the open source project RustVMM in collaboration with X-41 D-Sec GmbH, with funding by Amazon Web Services. The project offers crates to build customized Virtual Machine Monitors (thus, VMM), which can be vulnerable to malicious actors through its…
OSTIF and X41-Dsec collaborated with OpenSearch on a security audit on v. 2.8.0 of the open source search engine. As a search engine, this project handles sensitive data and therefore security is of utmost importance to project users, maintainers, and community. The main objective of this security audit was to…
Envoy, the open source edge and service proxy designed for cloud-native applications, worked with OSTIF and X41 D-Sec to help improve the project’s security posture. The multi-phased engagement, sponsored by Google, focused first on the triaging and closing of bugs, then upon further improving the core fuzzers that continually monitor…