Securing the open source supply chain: The essential role of CVEs
Vulnerability data has grown in volume and complexity over the past decade, but open source and programs like the Github Security Lab have helped supply chain security keep pace.
Madison Oliver is a vulnerability transparency advocate and senior security manager at GitHub, leading the advisory database curation team. She is passionate about vulnerability reporting, response, and disclosure, and co-chairs the relevant Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) working group and serves on the CVE Program Board. Her views are enriched by her prior experience as a product incident response analyst at GitHub and as a vulnerability coordinator at the CERT Coordination Center at the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University.
Vulnerability data has grown in volume and complexity over the past decade, but open source and programs like the Github Security Lab have helped supply chain security keep pace.
We’re excited to announce that the GitHub Advisory Database now includes curated security advisories on Erlang, Elixir, and more.
Do you worry that a CVE will hurt the reputation of your project? In reality, CVEs are a tracking number, and nothing more. Here’s how we think of them at GitHub.