docs: add a security policy

There is no SECURITY.md in any of the three locations GitHub reads, so the
repository has no Security policy link and no documented private channel. A
reporter is left choosing between a public issue, Discord, or the general
hi@usestrix.com inbox.

Add a SECURITY.md pointing at GitHub private vulnerability reporting and the
public org address, with what to include, scope, and disclosure expectations.

Scope is written around the boundary that matters for this project: Strix runs
untrusted target content through an agent and writes artifacts a human later
opens, so sandbox escape, credential and CA-key exposure, injection reached
through the generated reports, and prompt injection escalating outside the
sandbox are called out explicitly. It also states that findings Strix reports
about a user's own target are not vulnerabilities in Strix.
This commit is contained in:
itzzdev09 2026-08-31 19:50:57 +05:30
parent 3c767cdd47
commit 239a63f825

58
SECURITY.md Normal file
View file

@ -0,0 +1,58 @@
# Security Policy
## Reporting a vulnerability
**Please do not report security vulnerabilities through public GitHub issues,
pull requests, or Discord.**
Report privately through one of these channels:
1. **GitHub private vulnerability reporting** — open the
[Security tab](https://github.com/usestrix/strix/security) and use *Report a
vulnerability*. This keeps the report private, gives you a thread with the
maintainers, and can lead to a published advisory and a CVE.
2. **Email** — [hi@usestrix.com](mailto:hi@usestrix.com), with `SECURITY` in the
subject line.
## What to include
A report is easiest to act on when it contains:
- the affected component — the CLI, the sandbox container, the agent runtime,
the report writer, or the viewer;
- the version, from `strix --version`, and how it was installed;
- what an attacker gains, and what access they need to start;
- steps to reproduce, ideally a minimal case;
- any logs, scan artifacts, or proof-of-concept output.
Redact scan artifacts before sending them. A run directory can contain target
hostnames, captured credentials, and request bodies from whatever was scanned.
## Scope
Strix runs untrusted target content through an agent and writes artifacts a
human later opens, so the parts most worth reporting are the ones crossing that
boundary:
- sandbox escape, or anything giving the container more host access than the
documented mounts and network policy;
- exposure of LLM API keys, proxy-captured credentials, or the MITM CA key;
- code execution or injection reached through scanned target content, including
the generated reports — CSV, Markdown, PDF, SARIF and JSON;
- prompt injection from a target that escalates into actions outside the
sandbox.
Findings that Strix reports about *your own* scan target are not
vulnerabilities in Strix. Neither is a scan running against a host you are not
authorised to test.
## Supported versions
Fixes land on the latest release. Given the current release cadence, upgrading
to the newest version is the supported path rather than backports to older
tags.
## Disclosure
Please give the maintainers a chance to ship a fix before publishing details.
If you would like credit in the advisory, say so in your report.