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# Security Policy
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As a shell and programming language Nushell provides you with great powers and the potential to do dangerous things to your computer and data. Whenever there is a risk that a malicious actor can abuse a bug or a violation of documented behavior/assumptions in Nushell to harm you this is a *security* risk.
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We want to fix those issues without exposing our users to unnecessary risk. Thus we want to explain our security policy.
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Additional issues may be part of *safety* where the behavior of Nushell as designed and implemented can cause unintended harm or a bug causes damage without the involvement of a third party.
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## Supported Versions
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As Nushell is still under very active pre-stable development, the only version the core team prioritizes for security and safety fixes is the [most recent version as published on GitHub](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/releases/latest).
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Only if you provide a strong reasoning and the necessary resources, will we consider blessing a backported fix with an official patch release for a previous version.
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## Reporting a Vulnerability
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If you suspect that a bug or behavior of Nushell can affect security or may be potentially exploitable, please report the issue to us in private.
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Either reach out to the core team on [our Discord server](https://discord.gg/NtAbbGn) to arrange a private channel or use the [GitHub vulnerability reporting form](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/security/advisories/new).
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Please try to answer the following questions:
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- How can we reach you for further questions?
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- What is the bug? Which system of Nushell may be affected?
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- Do you have proof-of-concept for a potential exploit or have you observed an exploit in the wild?
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- What is your assessment of the severity based on what could be impacted should the bug be exploited?
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- Are additional people aware of the issue or deserve credit for identifying the issue?
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We will try to get back to you within a week with:
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- acknowledging the receipt of the report
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- an initial plan of how we want to address this including the primary points of contact for further communication
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- our preliminary assessment of how severe we judge the issue
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- a proposal for how we can coordinate responsible disclosure (e.g. how we ship the bugfix, if we need to coordinate with distribution maintainers, when you can release a blog post if you want to etc.)
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For purely *safety* related issues where the impact is severe by direct user action instead of malicious input or third parties, feel free to open a regular issue. If we deem that there may be an additional *security* risk on a *safety* issue we may continue discussions in a restricted forum.
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