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title: Reporting security issues in ASF code
description: We strongly encourage you to report potential security vulnerabilities privately, before disclosing them in a public forum.
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We warmly welcome reports of potential security vulnerabilities in our codebases.
**Only use the security contacts to report undisclosed security vulnerabilities in Apache projects and manage the process of fixing such vulnerabilities. We cannot accept regular bug reports or other security-related queries at these addresses. We will ignore mail sent to these addresses that does not relate to an undisclosed security problem in an Apache project.**
Note that results from source code security analysis tools are not accepted without additional analysis showing the problem indeed violates the projects' security model, as such tools commonly produce a significant amount of false positives.
A security vulnerability is a bug that breaks reasonable expectations of the
project in a way that affects confidentiality, integrity or availability. Some
projects have published a 'Security Model' to clarify which guarantees can be
expected. You can find the security model pages, as well as the email address
you can use to report potential vulnerabilities, [here](/projects).
Please send one plain-text, unencrypted, email for each vulnerability you are reporting to [security@apache.org](mailto:security@apache.org). We may ask you to resubmit your report if you send it as an image, movie, HTML, or PDF attachment when you could as easily describe it with plain text.
## Handling
An overview of the vulnerability handling process is:
* The reporter reports the vulnerability privately to Apache.
* The appropriate project's security team works privately with the reporter to resolve the vulnerability.
* The project creates a new release of the package the vulnerability affects to deliver its fix.
* The project publicly announces the vulnerability and describes how to apply the fix.
Committers should read a [more detailed description of the process](https://apache.org/security/committers.html). Reporters of security vulnerabilities may also find it useful.