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SECURITY.md

Security policy

Reporting a vulnerability

Do not file a public GitHub Issue for a security vulnerability.

If you believe you've found a vulnerability in OwLLM Desktop or in any file in this repository, please report it privately:

  1. Preferred: Use GitHub's private vulnerability reporting (Security tab → Report a vulnerability)
  2. Alternative: Open a private discussion with a maintainer

Please include:

  • A description of the issue and its impact
  • Steps to reproduce
  • Affected versions
  • Any proof-of-concept code or screenshots
  • Your contact for follow-up

What we treat as a vulnerability

  • Application binaries: any code-execution, privilege-escalation, or data-exfiltration path in the OwLLM Desktop application
  • Distribution chain: any tampering of the install / update mechanism (registry, module ZIPs, latest.json)
  • Data layer: template / role / profile files whose content could cause the application to behave maliciously when loaded
  • Repository: workflow privilege escalation, secret exposure

NOT in scope:

  • Issues that require physical access AND administrator privileges already
  • Self-XSS in your own copy of the application
  • Reports that depend on outdated third-party dependencies whose patches are pending upstream (we'll track those but treat them at upstream severity)
  • Theoretical issues with no exploit path

Response targets

  • Acknowledgement: within 3 business days
  • Triage + severity assessment: within 7 business days
  • Fix shipped: within 30 days for high-severity, 90 days for moderate

Disclosure

Once a fix is available, we coordinate public disclosure with the reporter. Reporters are credited in the release notes and the advisory unless they request otherwise.

Bug bounty

OwLLM doesn't currently run a paid bounty programme. We do credit reporters publicly and we're considering a bounty programme as the user base grows — feedback welcome via Discussions.

There aren't any published security advisories