CERT Vulnerability Disclosure Policy Templates

In recent years the CERT/CC has advised a number of organizations on their vulnerability disclosure policies. In the interest of helping others develop or improve their own policies, we've these items from a variety of vulnerability disclosure policies including our own, generalized them, organized them by topic, and put them into a git repository. The policy templates in this repository are meant to be remixed and adapted for different organizations and contexts. It is unlikely that any single organization would choose to adopt all off these items wholesale without some modification.

https://github.com/CERTCC/vulnerability_disclosure_policy_templates

NTIA Early Stage Template

The NTIA Early Stage Template focuses on vulnerability disclosure policy development in safety-critical industries, in which the potential for harm directly impacts public safety or causes physical damage (e.g., automobiles or medical devices), but the lessons are easily adaptable by any organization that builds or maintains its own software or systems. A discussion of issues and template policy is included.

https://www.ntia.doc.gov/files/ntia/publications/ntia_vuln_disclosure_early_stage_template.pdf

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BugCrowd and CipherLaw created the Open Source Vulnerability Disclosure Framework, offered under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. The framework "is designed to quickly and smoothly prepare your organization to work with the independent security researcher community while reducing the legal risks to researchers and companies." In addition to a policy template "written with both simplicity and legal completeness in mind," a guidance document is provided for setting up a vulnerability disclosure program.

https://github.com/bugcrowd/disclosure-policy

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The United States General Services Administration (GSA)'s Technology Transformation Service (TTS) provides its vulnerability disclosure policy as a public domain resource.

https://github.com/18F/vulnerability-disclosure-policy

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The Good Practice Guide on Vulnerability Disclosure from European Union Agency for Network and Information Security (ENISA) includes an annotated vulnerability disclosure policy template as an Annex.

https://www.enisa.europa.eu/publications/vulnerability-disclosure/at_download/fullReport

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The United States Department of Justice (DoJ) has published a white paper containing guidance aimed at developing vulnerability disclosure programs for online systems and services. This report makes a point to distinguish online systems and services from "third-party vulnerability disclosure and hands-on—rather than remote—examination of software, devices, or hardware" because of potentially distinct legal issues that may arise.

https://www.justice.gov/criminal-ccips/page/file/983996/download

The aforementioned report is one of many related white papers provided by the DoJ's Computer Crime and Intellectual Property section.

https://www.justice.gov/criminal-ccips/ccips-documents-and-reports

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