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How to write excellent vulnerability reports for open source projects

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5d ago· 7 min readen

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Daniel Stenberg, the maintainer of the curl project, shares a guide based on over a thousand vulnerability reports received over the years. The article provides practical advice for security researchers on how to write excellent vulnerability reports for open source projects, covering what makes a report useful, actionable, and respectful to maintainers.

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We tend to call everyone who reports a security problem a security researcher, because by the act of the submission itself they fulfill the definition.

Over the years, we have received, read and handled way over one thousand vulnerability reports filed against curl. We have seen most kinds.

It is time for me to try to help future reporters by providing a short guide on how to submit a truly excellent vulnerability report to an Open Source project.

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Over the years, we have received, read and handled way over one thousand vulnerability reports filed against curl. We have seen most kinds. It is time for me to try to help future reporters by providing a short guide on how to submit a truly excellent vul

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