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…
We’re excited to report the results of a security audit of slf4j. Simple Logging Facade for Java, slf4j, is identified in the Harvard Census II results as one of the most widely-deployed logging frameworks. The security and supply chain review was facilitated by Open Source Technology Improvement Fund and carried…
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…
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…
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…
We have been working with the team over at the Flux project on a security review and improving their tooling. The Cloud Native Computing Foundation contacted us a few months ago and wanted to facilitate both improving the testing infrastructure and to manually review Flux's source code. We selected ADA…
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…
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,…
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…
The Linux Foundation's Public Health (LFPH) initiative has sponsored audits of two COVID-19 exposure notification apps, COVID Shield and COVID Green. As part of their stewardship of these projects, the Linux Foundation decided that it would be prudent to perform due diligence by reviewing the design and code of the…