The Open Source Technology Improvement Fund is proud to share the results of our security work on the BOLT binary scanner for LLVM. LLVM is an open source compiler for translating human-readable source code for machine-readable hardware. In 2024, Arm engineer Kristof Beyls developed a static binary analyzer on BOLT,…
The Open Source Technology Improvement Fund is proud to share the results of our security audit of Scala. Scala is a modern multi-paradigm programming language designed to express common programming patterns in a concise, elegant, and type-safe way. It seamlessly integrates features of object-oriented and functional languages. To improve the…
The Open Source Technology Improvement Fund is proud to share the results of our security audit of LibVLC. LibVLC is the open source core engine and foundation of VLC media player. With auditing by Trail of Bits and funding provided by the Sovereign Tech Agency, LibVLC received scoped security work,…
The Open Source Technology Improvement Fund is proud to share the results of our security audit of Inspektor Gadget. Inspektor Gadget is a collection of open source libraries and tools for data collection and inspection of Kubernetes clusters and Linux hosts. With the help of Shielder and the Cloud Native…
The Open Source Technology Improvement Fund is proud to share the results of our security audit of Requests, CacheControl, and urllib3. Requests is a widely used, elegant HTTP library for Python, designed to make HTTP requests simple and human-friendly, CacheControl is a port of the caching algorithms from httplib2 for…
2025 Bug of the Year Award The Open Source Technology Improvement Fund is a non profit organization that specializes in security engagements for open source projects. We create bridges between the complex web of entities that are necessary to carry out a third party security audit. A cornerstone of that…
The Open Source Technology Improvement Fund is proud to share the results of our security audit of Stork. Stork is an open source project developed by the Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) that acts as an administrative interface for monitoring, maintaining, and surveilling Kea servers. With the help of 7ASecurity, this…
For the past 4 years, OSTIF has run a Managed Audit Program for the CNCF. We’ve audited 33 projects in that time, working with maintainers all over the world to reinforce the security health of cloud native open source for billions of end users. Security audits are an effective, sustainable…
The Open Source Technology Improvement Fund is proud to share the results of our security audit of zlib. Zlib is an open source lossless data-compression library for use on virtually any computer hardware and operating system. Thanks to the efforts of 7ASecurity and the Sovereign Tech Resilience Program, this project underwent…
2025 marked the 10th year of OSTIF. This year, we published 24 audits, worked on behalf of almost 50 projects, and partnered with 10 different funding bodies to create security outcomes for open source projects. As a result, 231 findings with security impact have been reported and over 98% of…