Deploy and manage any desktop operating system, anywhere. FOG Project can capture, deploy, and manage Windows, Mac OSX, and various Linux distributions. The community has adopted this security disclosure and response policy to ensure responsibe handle of critical issues.

Use this section to tell people about which versions of your project are currently being supported with security updates.

Security is of high importance and all security vulnerabilities or suspected security vulnerabilities should be reported to FOG Project privately, to minimize attacks against current users of FOG Project before they are fixed. Vulnerabilities will be investigated and patched on the next patch (or minor) release as soon as possible.

If you know of a publicly disclosed security vulnerability for FOG Project, please IMMEDIATELY contact noreply@fogproject.org to inform the FOG Project Security Team.

IMPORTANT: Do not file public issues on GitHub for security vulnerabilities

To report a vulnerability or a security-related issue, please email the private address noreply@fogproject.org with the details of the vulnerability. The email will be handled by the FOG Project Security Team. Emails will be addressed within 3 business days, including a detailed plan to investigate the issue and any potential workarounds to perform in the meantime. Do not report non-security-impacting bugs through this channel. Use GitHub issues instead.

Provide a descriptive subject line and in the body of the email include the following information:

• Basic identity information, such as your name and your affiliation or company.
• Detailed steps to reproduce the vulnerability (POC scripts, screenshots, and compressed packet captures are all helpful to us).
• Description of the effects of the vulnerability on FOG Project and the related hardware and software configurations, so that the FOG Project Security Team can reproduce it.
• How the vulnerability affects FOG Project usage and an estimation of the attack surface, if there is one.
• List other projects or dependencies that were used in conjunction with FOG Project to produce the vulnerability.

• When you think FOG Project has a potential security vulnerability.
• When you suspect a potential vulnerability but you are unsure that it impacts FOG Project.
• When you know of or suspect a potential vulnerability on another project that is used by FOG Project. For example FOG Project has a dependency on PHP, MariaDB/MySQL, Apache, Linux kernel, buildroot, etc.

The FOG Project Security Team will respond to vulnerability reports as follows:

1. The Security Team will investigate the vulnerability and determine its effects and criticality.
2. If the issue is not deemed to be a vulnerability, the Security Team will follow up with a detailed reason for rejection.
3. The Security Team will initiate a conversation with the reporter within 3 business days.
4. If a vulnerability is acknowledged and the timeline for a fix is determined, the Security Team will work on a plan to communicate with the appropriate community, including identifying mitigating steps that affected users can take to protect themselves until the fix is rolled out.
5. The Security Team will also create a CVSS using the CVSS Calculator. The Security Team makes the final call on the calculated CVSS; it is better to move quickly than making the CVSS perfect. Issues may also be reported to Mitre using this scoring calculator. The CVE will initially be set to private.
6. The Security Team will work on fixing the vulnerability and perform internal testing before preparing to roll out the fix.
7. A public disclosure date is negotiated by the FOG Project Security Team, the bug submitter, and the distributors list. We prefer to fully disclose the bug as soon as possible once a user mitigation or patch is available. It is reasonable to delay disclosure when the bug or the fix is not yet fully understood, the solution is not well-tested, or for distributor coordination. The timeframe for disclosure is from immediate (especially if it’s already publicly known) to a few weeks. For a critical vulnerability with a straightforward mitigation, we expect report date to public disclosure date to be on the order of 14 business days. The FOG Project Security Team holds the final say when setting a public disclosure date.
8. Once the fix is confirmed, the Security Team will patch the vulnerability in the next patch or minor release, and backport a patch release into all earlier supported releases. Upon release of the patched version of FOG Project, we will follow the Public Disclosure Process.

The Security Team publishes a public advisory to the FOG Project community via GitHub. In most cases, additional communication via forums, website and other channels will assist in educating FOG Project users and rolling out the patched release to affected users.

The Security Team will also publish any mitigating steps users can take until the fix can be applied to their FOG Project instances. FOG Project distributors will handle creating and publishing their own security advisories.

The terms and conditions of the Embargo Policy apply to all members of this mailing list. A request for membership represents your acceptance to the terms and conditions of the Embargo Policy

The information that members receive on noreply@fogproject.org must not be made public, shared, or even hinted at anywhere beyond those who need to know within your specific team, unless you receive explicit approval to do so from the FOG Project Security Team. This remains true until the public disclosure date/time agreed upon by the list. Members of the list and others cannot use the information for any reason other than to get the issue fixed for your respective distribution's users. Before you share any information from the list with members of your team who are required to fix the issue, these team members must agree to the same terms, and only be provided with information on a need-to-know basis.

In the unfortunate event that you share information beyond what is permitted by this policy, you must urgently inform the noreply@fogproject.org mailing list of exactly what information was leaked and to whom. If you continue to leak information and break the policy outlined here, you will be permanently removed from the list.

Send new membership requests to noreply@fogproject.org. In the body of your request please specify how you qualify for membership and fulfill each criterion listed in the Membership Criteria section above.

We consider vulnerabilities leading to the compromise of data confidentiality, elevation of privilege, or integrity to be our highest priority concerns. Availability, in particular in areas relating to DoS and resource exhaustion, is also a serious security concern. The FOG Project Security Team takes all vulnerabilities, potential vulnerabilities, and suspected vulnerabilities seriously and will investigate them in an urgent and expeditious manner.

Note that we do not currently consider the default settings for FOG Project to be secure-by-default. It is necessary for operators to explicitly configure settings, role based access control, and other resource related features in FOG Project to provide a hardened FOG Project environment. We will not act on any security disclosure that relates to a lack of safe defaults. Over time, we will work towards improved safe-by-default configuration, taking into account backwards compatibility.