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SECURITY.md

Security Policy

Supported Versions

LARM is pre-release. The following versions receive security updates:

Version Supported
main (unreleased)
v0.1.x (upcoming) ✅ (once released)
pre-v0.1 internal / commercial builds

After the v0.1.0 release, we will support the current minor and the one immediately preceding it for security patches. Older versions are end-of-life (EOL) unless explicitly announced otherwise.


Reporting a Vulnerability

Please do NOT open public GitHub issues for security vulnerabilities.

Instead, report privately via one of the following channels:

  1. Preferred — GitHub Private Security Advisory Visit https://github.com/openlarm/core/security/advisories/new (URL active once the openlarm GitHub organisation is registered).

  2. Emailsecurity@openlarm.org

    ⚠️ This address becomes live after the openlarm.org domain is registered (see OPEN_SOURCE_DECISIONS.md §7). Until then, please use the temporary reporting channel on the repo owner's GitHub profile, or open a confidential issue explicitly marked [SECURITY — REDACT BEFORE PUBLIC VIEW] and a maintainer will move it to a private advisory within 48 hours.

  3. PGP — a PGP public key will be published alongside the first v0.1.0 release tag. Until then, treat email as unencrypted; do not include exploit payloads in plain text.

What to include

  • Description of the vulnerability, including the affected version (git SHA or release tag) and component (@openlarm/core, @openlarm/regions-*, the Next.js demo app, CI pipeline, etc.)
  • Reproduction steps — minimum input and environment needed.
  • Impact assessment — what an attacker could achieve.
  • Suggested mitigation (optional).
  • Your preferred credit — name and/or handle for the advisory, or "anonymous" if preferred.

What happens next

Timeframe Action
Within 3 business days Acknowledgement of receipt
Within 14 business days Initial triage (severity + scope + tentative fix plan)
Before public disclosure Coordinated fix, advisory draft, CVE request if warranted
After fix ships Public advisory via GitHub Security Advisories (GHSA)

We aim to resolve critical vulnerabilities (CVSS ≥ 9.0) within 30 days. High-severity issues (CVSS 7.0–8.9) within 60 days. Lower-severity issues within 90 days or the next minor release.


Scope

Vulnerabilities in scope include:

  • Logic errors in @openlarm/core that cause the model to return unsafe GO decisions for unsafe inputs, or valid NO-GO inputs to be incorrectly converted to GO (model integrity).
  • Parameter-injection or override vulnerabilities that bypass hard stops (wind ≥ 39 km/h, rain > 10 mm/h & prob > 60%, EDR > 0.8).
  • Supply-chain compromise (dependency poisoning, package-ownership hijack, malicious scripts in postinstall).
  • Secret exposure (API keys for CWA/Open-Meteo/JMA leaked in commits, CI logs, or published packages).
  • Cross-site scripting or other web vulnerabilities in the reference Next.js application.
  • CI/CD pipeline compromise (GitHub Actions permission misuse, release signing bypass).

Out of scope:

  • Issues requiring non-default and explicitly unsafe configurations (e.g. setting hard_stop.wind_kmh to 999 via param override — documented misuse).
  • Missing aviation-regulation integrations for regions without a @openlarm/regions-* adapter (these are feature requests, not vulnerabilities).
  • Real-world flight incidents caused by LARM's advisory output — LARM is decision support, not PIC replacement (see README Safety Notice).
  • Weather API accuracy issues upstream of LARM (report to Open-Meteo / CWA / JMA directly).

Safe Harbour

We support good-faith security research:

  • You will not be subject to legal action if you follow this policy.
  • You may test against your own deployments only — do not test against third-party LARM deployments without their permission.
  • Do not access, modify, or exfiltrate data belonging to other users.
  • Do not perform DoS / resource-exhaustion tests against hosted services.

Acknowledgements

A security hall of fame will be maintained at docs/security/hall-of-fame.md after the first credited disclosure.

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