A Method for Web Security Policies
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Network Working Group E. Foudil
Internet-Draft
Intended status: Informational Y. Shafranovich
Expires: May 22, 2020 Nightwatch Cybersecurity
November 19, 2019
A Method for Web Security Policies
draft-foudil-securitytxt-08
Abstract
When security vulnerabilities are discovered by independent security
researchers, they often lack the channels to report them properly.
As a result, security vulnerabilities may be left unreported. This
document defines a format ("security.txt") to help organizations
describe the process for security researchers to follow in order to
report security vulnerabilities.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
1.1. Motivation, Prior Work and Scope . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
1.2. Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
2. Note to Readers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
3. The Specification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
3.1. Scope of the File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
3.2. Comments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
3.3. Line Separator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
3.4. Digital signature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
3.5. Field Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
3.5.1. Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
3.5.2. Canonical . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
3.5.3. Contact . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
3.5.4. Encryption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
3.5.5. Hiring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
3.5.6. Policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
3.5.7. Preferred-Languages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
3.6. Example of an unsigned "security.txt" file . . . . . . . 9
3.7. Example of a signed "security.txt" file . . . . . . . . . 9
4. Location of the security.txt file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
4.1. Web-based services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
4.2. Filesystems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
4.3. Internal hosts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
4.4. Extensibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
5. File Format Description and ABNF Grammar . . . . . . . . . . 11
6. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
6.1. Compromised Files and Redirects . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
6.2. Incorrect or Stale Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
6.3. Intentionally Malformed Files, Resources and Reports . . 13
6.4. No Implied Permission for Testing . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
6.5. Multi-user Environments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
6.6. Protecting Data in Transit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
6.7. Spam and Spurious Reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
7. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
7.1. Well-Known URIs registry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
7.2. Registry for security.txt Header Fields . . . . . . . . . 15
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