Securing Open-Source Infrastructure with Trail of Bits

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…

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The Buzz about Mosquitto ‘s Security Audit!

Open source project Mosquitto underwent a security audit with OSTIF and Trail of Bits in collaboration with the Eclipse Foundation. The project, which is a message broker for the MQTT protocol, is designed to connect the Internet of Things. Projects that are open to the internet have increased landscape exposure…

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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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Dampening Vulnerabilities in Dapr: Security Audit of Dapr

In May and June of 2023, OSTIF and ADA Logics worked with the open source project Dapr on a holistic security audit. The Distributed Application Runtime (or Dapr) is a project for building distributed applications across cloud and edge. It is an easy, portable, and serverless way to build sustainable…

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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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