The OSTIF Audit of Backstage with X41 D-Sec is Complete!

We’re excited to report the results for the security audit of Backstage. Backstage is a software catalog and development platform that enables teams to quickly ship high-quality code. The security review was facilitated by Open Source Technology Improvement Fund backed by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation and carried out by…

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Our Audit of sigstore is complete. High risk vulnerability found and fixed.

We’re excited to report the results for the security audit of sigstore.  Sigstore is a new standard for signing, verifying and protecting software; and has quickly grown into a premier tool for securing the software supply chain. The security review was facilitated by Open Source Technology Improvement Fund and carried…

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Our Audit of Argo is Complete. Critical and High Severity Security Issues Found and Fixed.

Open Source Technology Improvement Fund is happy to report the results of yet another security audit, this time of the Argo project. The Argo project is a collection of tools for getting work done with Kubernetes. The main components of Argo audited are:  Argo Workflows - Container-native Workflow Engine Argo…

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Our Audit of KubeEdge is Complete. Multiple Security Issues Found and Fixed.

Open Source Technology Improvement Fund (ostif.org) is thrilled to report the results of a security audit of KubeEdge. KubeEdge is an edge computing framework built on top of Kubernetes and extends native containerized application orchestration and management to hosts at the edge. The result of this engagement is the finding…

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Our Audit of CRI-O is Complete – High Severity Issues Found and Fixed

Open Source Technology Improvement Fund is thrilled to report the results of a security audit of CRI-O. CRI-O is an open source software (OSS) project that is an implementation of the Kubernetes Container Runtime Interface. It can run any OCI-compatible container, providing an enormous number of applications and environments.  The…

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OSTIF is working with the Open Source Security Foundation on Symfony

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OSTIF has been working with the Open Source Security Foundation's Securing Critical Projects working group to help identify critical pieces of infrastructure that require focused security attention. Symfony, a widely used PHP framework has consistently been near the top of multiple reports, underscoring the criticality of the project to the…

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A Review of the Linux Kernel’s Release Signing and Key Management Policies

The Linux Foundation sought a review of the kernel teams’ processes for release signing and for the policies and procedures for the handling of the signing keys. Working with OSTIF, Trail of Bits was selected to lead the project and a two person-week review was conducted. Unlike most OSTIF projects,…

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A Review of the Linux Kernel’s Vulnerability Reporting and Remediation

The Linux Foundation has sponsored a review of the Linux Kernel's practices and policies around how security vulnerabilities are reported to the kernel team, how those reports are processed and addressed, and how those vulnerabilities are disclosed to the public. OSTIF, working with the team at Atredis Partners and a…

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