security

You know that security is important but just have no time to spend digging into numerous tutorials and guides to figure out what’s relevant to you. To support fellow developers, the Eclipse Foundation is offering free security training for all Committers and Contributors. The complete training contains three parts: the...

Today marks an important milestone for the open source community. As open source software continues to drive innovation across industries, ensuring its relevance and compliance with emerging regulations has never been more critical.  To address these challenges, the Eclipse Foundation is proud to announce the formal launch of the Open...

In response to requests from various projects and after discussions between the Eclipse Foundation Security Team and the Architecture Council, we announced the creation of Project Security Teams (see the discussion at https://github.com/orgs/eclipse-csi/discussions/4 ) This blog post gives an overview of various questions that we have received in the last...

Do you have a demo or examples in a specific repository? Or perhaps you have a functionality that needs time to mature, and you publish it in the open source spirit, but nobody should use it (yet) in a production setup? If you have such a code, mark it clearly...

As you probably know, the Eclipse Foundation is a CNA (CVE Numbering Authority), responsible for assigning vulnerability identification numbers, known as CVE (Common Vulnerability Enumerations), to our projects. This August 2024, a new set of rules for CNAs comes into force. The PDF detailing these new rules spans 23 pages...

Eclipse Foundation projects can request to use GitHub Private Vulnerability Reporting . This feature allows committers of projects hosted on GitHub to receive potential vulnerability reports in a confidential way. When you are working on an existing vulnerability report, you might see the “Request CVE” button. Please do not use...

A vulnerability description includes several fields, like the title and description. However, one is causing difficulties for people writing CVE (Common Vulnerability Enumeration) entries: the CVSS (Common Vulnerability Scoring System) vector. CVSS is an important field because it answers a fundamental question about the vulnerability: "How serious is it?" A...

Today, the Eclipse Foundation released the results of our security audit for Eclipse CycloneDDS . Findings from the audit have been addressed in the latest versioned source code of Eclipse CycloneDDS, available at https://github.com/eclipse-cyclonedds/cyclonedds . Eclipse CycloneDDS is an implementation of the Data Distribution Service (DDS) specification published by the...

Today, the Eclipse Foundation released the results of our security audit for the Eclipse Temurin project . Findings from the audit have been addressed in the latest versioned source code of Eclipse Adoptium and Eclipse Temurin, available in various repositories at https://github.com/adoptium . Eclipse Temurin is a part of the...

Exciting news - the 2024 IoT & Embedded Developer Survey is now open! This comprehensive survey provides developers and industry professionals with a unique opportunity to shape the future of IoT and embedded systems by sharing their insights and experiences. Since 2015, we've been at the forefront of exploring the...