Security

We take the security of lemur seriously. The following are a set of policies we have adopted to ensure that security issues are addressed in a timely fashion.

Reporting a security issue

We ask that you do not report security issues to our normal GitHub issue tracker.

If you believe you’ve identified a security issue with lemur, please report it to lemur@netflix.com.

Once you’ve submitted an issue via email, you should receive an acknowledgment within 48 hours, and depending on the action to be taken, you may receive further follow-up emails.

Supported Versions

At any given time, we will provide security support for the master branch as well as the most recent release.

Disclosure Process

Our process for taking a security issue from private discussion to public disclosure involves multiple steps.

Approximately one week before full public disclosure, we will provide advanced notification that a security issue exists. Depending on the severity of the issue, we may choose to either send a targeted email to known Lemur users and contributors or post an issue to the Lemur repository. In either case, the notification should contain the following.

  • A description of the potential impact

  • The affected versions of lemur.

  • The steps we will be taking to remedy the issue.

  • The date on which the lemur team will apply these patches, issue new releases, and publicly disclose the issue.

If the issue was disclosed to us, the reporter will receive notification of the date on which we plan to make the issue public.

On the day of disclosure, we will take the following steps:

  • Apply the relevant patches to the lemur repository. The commit messages for these patches will indicate that they are for security issues, but will not describe the issue in any detail; instead, they will warn of upcoming disclosure.

  • Issue an updated release.

If a reported issue is believed to be particularly time-sensitive – due to a known exploit in the wild, for example – the time between advance notification and public disclosure may be shortened considerably.

The list of people and organizations who receives advanced notification of security issues is not, and will not, be made public. This list generally consists of high-profile downstream distributors and is entirely at the discretion of the lemur team.