This document outlines security procedures and general policies for the Archivematica project. See https://www.archivematica.org for more information about Archivematica.
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The Archivematica development team takes security seriously and will investigate all reported vulnerabilities.
If you would like to report a vulnerability or have a security concern regarding Archivematica, please do not file a public issue in our GitHub repository or post about the issue on the user forum. It is critical to the safety of other users that security issues are reported in a secure manner. Instead, please email a report to:
We will be better able to evaluate and respond to your report if it includes all the details needed for us to reproduce the issue locally. Please include the following information in your email:
- The version of Archivematica you are using.
- Basic information about your installation environment, including operating system and dependency versions.
- Steps to reproduce the issue.
- The resulting error or vulnerability.
- If there are any error logs related to the issue, please include the relevant parts as well.
Your report will be acknowledged within 2 business days, and we’ll follow up with a more detailed response indicating the next steps we intend to take within 1 week.
If you haven’t received a reply to your submission after 5 business days of the original report, there are a couple steps you can take:
- Email the Archivematica Program Manager directly at [email protected]
- Email Artefactual's info address: [email protected]
Any information you share with the Archivematica development team as a part of this process will be kept confidential within the team. If we determine that the vulnerability is located upstream in one of the libraries or dependencies that Archivematica uses, we may need to share some information about the report with the dependency’s core team - in this case, we will notify you before proceeding.
If the vulnerability is first reported by you, we will credit you with the discovery in the public disclosure, unless you tell us you would prefer to remain anonymous.
When the Archivematica development team receives a security bug report, we will assign it to a primary handler. This person will coordinate the fix and release process, involving the following steps:
- Confirm the problem and determine the affected versions.
- Audit code to find any similar potential problems.
- Prepare fixes for all releases still under maintenance. These fixes will be released as fast as possible.
Once new releases and/or security patches have been prepared, tested, and made publicly available, we will also make a post in the Archivematica user forum advising users of the issue, and encouraging them to upgrade (or apply the supplied patch) as soon as possible. Any internal tickets created in our issue tracker related to the issue will be made public after disclosure, and referenced in the release notes for the new version(s).
In the case of a confirmed security issue, we will add the fix to the most
recent stable branch, and the development branch (prefaced by qa/). If the
severity of the issue is high, we may in some cases also backport the fix to the
previous stable branch as well (e.g. stable/1.11.x) so that users running a
legacy version have the option of adding the fix as a patch to their local
installations. We will attempt to ensure that fixes, and/or a confirmed
workaround that resolves the security issue, are available prior to disclosing
any security issues publicly.
If you have discovered an issue in Archivematica that is not related to a security vulnerability, we welcome you to file an issue in the Archivematica Issues repository or post your question on the Archivematica user forum.