RustVMM Security Audit with OSTIF is Complete!

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…

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OSTIF Has Completed A Security Audit of wasmCloud!

OSTIF and wasmCloud collaborated with Trail of Bits on a security audit of the application which is a deployment platform for distributed Wasm application development. The engagement priorities are listed as, but not limited to: wasmCloud sandboxing capabilities of user-provided code, if users were appropriately limited in their accessible features…

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Bugs? Search Me!- OpenSearch Security Audit Completed!

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…

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OSTIF’s Favorite Bug- DragonFly!

This summer, over four engineer weeks, Trail of Bits and OSTIF collaborated on a security audit of DragonFly. A CNCF Incubating Project, DragonFly functions as file distribution for peer-to-peer technologies. Included in the scope was the sub-project Nydus’s repository that works in image distribution. The engagement was outlined and framed…

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OSTIF collaborates with the Envoy Team to further improve security posture.

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…

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OSTIF completes Security Audit of Crossplane- improved across the board!

Crossplane underwent a successful third party security audit by ADA Logics with the support of Open Source Technology Improvement Fund (OSTIF). Used by firms such as JP Morgan, Time Warner, and MIT Lincoln Lab, the project is considered Incubating at CNCF. Over the first half of 2023, the multi-cloud control…

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OSTIF’s Security Audit of K-9 Mail is Complete!

Open Source Technology Improvement Fund (OSTIF), K-9 Mail, and 7ASecurity collaborated on a security audit of the Mozilla K-9 email application. K-9 is an open source email application and runs on most Android phone systems. Ideally, the application is reliable, intuitive, and secure to use. Not only critical to Android…

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OSTIF’s Security Audit of Notation-duly Noted!

During the Spring of 2023, OSTIF, ADA Logics, and The Notary Project collaborated on a security audit of the new Notation libraries. Notation is a CLI project to add signatures as standard items in the registry ecosystem and to build a set of simple tooling for signing and verifying signatures. …

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