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The vulnerability research ecosystem contains many different actors, all with different motivations, ranging from commercial to altruistic to everything in between.
Effectively and consistently interacting with the security community can prove challenging. Through the GitHub Security Lab (disclosure: I am a GitHub employee), we ve observed many different approaches to receiving and triaging vulnerability reports, ranging from casual email interactions to fully ticketed bug tracking systems.
I ll break down the vulnerability report pipeline into five major steps that make for an effective and positive experience for both the maintainer and external vulnerability reporter: Receive, Acknowledge, Verify, Triage, and Publish.
Receiving Vulnerability Reports