OSTIF is proud to share the results of our security audit of cURL HTTP/3. cURL is an open source command line tool and library, the most widely used HTTP client software in the world. This engagement was for the new components of HTTP/3 in cURL. With the help of Trail…
OSTIF is proud to share the results of our security audit of Jackson subprojects. Jackson-dataformats-binary, Jackson-dataformats-text, Jackson-dataformat-xml, Jackson-datatype-joda, and Jackson-datatypes-collections are open source subprojects that contribute to Jackson (described as “JSON for Java”). With the help of Ada Logics and the Sovereign Tech Fund, these subprojects will be more secure…
The Sovereign Tech Fund and the Open Source Technology Improvement Fund (OSTIF) are collaborating upon multiple security reviews for open source projects. As part of STF’s Bug Resilience Program, we are organizing and providing projects that are rooted in infrastructure with audits and engagements to reduce their open and undiscovered…
The Drupal project partnered with OSTIF for a series of audits on key technology to support supply chain security for automatic updates. Specifically, the PHP-TUF client-side library and its server-side Rugged counterpart underwent a security audit by Include Security organized by OSTIF. The Update Framework (or “TUF”) is a cryptographically-secure…
OSTIF started performing security audits in earnest in 2018, tackling a new level of involvement open source security. That same year was OSTIF’s first collaboration with security firm Trail of Bits, working together to complete an audit of RandomX. Since then our two companies have worked together on 12 security…
In collaboration with Amazon Web Services and the Eclipse Foundation, OSTIF is excited to release our Independent Security Audit Impact Report for 2023! Over the past year, OSTIF worked with 10 projects to complete third-party security audits with funding supplied by AWS and the EF. The engagement oversaw 24 new…
OSTIF and the CNCF are proud to announce the completion of a security audit of CubeFS. The project, which provides cloud-native storage across a variety of access protocols, was audited by the team at Ada Logics during the Fall of 2023. The security audit for CubeFS was designed to be…
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…