This document defines security reporting, handling, disclosure, and audit information for the Flux project and community.

Also see our Flux Security documentation landing page for an overview of project security information geared toward end users.

We're very thankful for – and if desired happy to credit – security researchers and users who report vulnerabilities to the Flux community.

• To make a report please email the private security list at cncf-flux-security@lists.cncf.io with the details. We ask that reporters act in good faith by not disclosing the issue to others.
• You may, but are not required to, encrypt your email to this list using the PGP keys of Security Team members, listed below.
• The Security Team will fix the issue as soon as possible and coordinate a release date with you.
• You will be able to choose if you want public acknowledgement of your effort and how you would like to be credited.

Current Security Team members:

• All reports are thoroughly investigated by the Security Team.
• Any vulnerability information shared with the Security Team will not be shared with others unless it is necessary to fix the issue. Information is shared only on a need to know basis.
• As the security issue moves through the identification and resolution process, the reporter will be notified.
• Additional questions about the vulnerability may also be asked of the reporter.
• Note that while Flux is very active it is a vendor-neutral CNCF project maintained by volunteers, not by a single company. As such, security issue handling is done on a best-effort basis. Talk to us if you are interested in getting involved with this work! :-)

Vulnerability disclosures are emailed to the Flux Dev mailing list https://lists.cncf.io/g/cncf-flux-dev and announced publicly. Disclosures will contain an overview, details about the vulnerability, a fix that will typically be an update, and optionally a workaround if one is available.

We will coordinate publishing disclosures and security releases in a way that is realistic and necessary for end users. We prefer to fully disclose the vulnerability as soon as possible once a user mitigation is available. Disclosures will always be published in a timely manner after a release is published that fixes the vulnerability.

The Flux security team publishes its advisories directly into the affected repositories. The main exception to this rule is flux2, which aggregates the CVEs across all Flux components (CLI and controllers).

The existing advisories can be found below:

• https://github.com/fluxcd/flux2/security/advisories
• https://github.com/fluxcd/kustomize-controller/security/advisories
• https://github.com/fluxcd/source-controller/security/advisories

• In 2021 there was a security assessment and fuzzer development of the fluxcd repositories made by Ada Logics and funded by the CNCF.
• For a summary, please see this blog post
• For all details, please read the audit full technical report