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Re: Proposed SECURITY-PROCESS updates

From: Daniel Stenberg via curl-library <curl-library_at_lists.haxx.se>
Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2023 18:18:38 +0100 (CET)

On Thu, 9 Mar 2023, Daniel Gustafsson wrote:

> This opens us up to the risk that we've misjudged the severity, and we
> publish what we think is Low but in reality should've been High (or higher).
> Ideally this shouldn't happen, and thus the risk is low, but known risks are
> better than unknown. If we are on the fence regarding severity it should be
> fine to keep it hidden as per the process for High.

Ah yes, good point. We should be fairly sure of the severity level before we
make a (public) PR to fix any security flaw.

Do you think it is worth adding words about that in the SECURITY-PROCESS
document? 

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