Note: this policy is new and untested. We’ll update and polish it as we’re receiving security issues.

Keeping users safe and secure is a top priority for us at vfile. We welcome the contribution of external security researchers.

If you believe you’ve found a security issue in any software, service, or website governed by vfile, we encourage you to notify us.

Projects governed by vfile sometimes do unsafe things by design (such as a plugin that executes arbitrary code or an option that is dangerous). This unsafe behavior should be explicitly documented and, if it is, is not considered a security issue.

There are no hard and fast rules to determine if a bug is worth reporting as a security issue or a “regular” issue. When in doubt, please do send us a report.

Security issues can be reported by sending an email to [email protected], which will go to all unified collective core team members. The team will acknowledge your email within 48 hours. You will receive a more detailed response within 96 hours.

We will create a maintainer security advisory on GitHub to discuss internally, and when needed, invite you to the advisory.

vfile supports safe harbor for security researchers who:

• make a good faith effort to avoid privacy violations, destruction of data, and interruption or degradation of our services
• only interact with accounts you own or with explicit permission of the account holder; if you do encounter Personally Identifiable Information (PII) contact us immediately, do not proceed with access, and immediately purge any local information
• provide us with a reasonable amount of time to resolve vulnerabilities prior to any disclosure to the public or a third-party
• we will consider activities conducted consistent with this policy to constitute “authorized” conduct and will not pursue civil action or initiate a complaint to law enforcement; we will help to the extent we can if legal action is initiated by a third party against you

Please submit a report to us before engaging in conduct that may be inconsistent with or unaddressed by this policy.

• please provide detailed reports with reproducible steps and a clearly defined impact
• submit one vulnerability per report
• social engineering (such as phishing, vishing, smishing) is prohibited