mstrap aims to produce a development environment with secure defaults.

This is why we require remote bootstrapping to use HTTPS, encourage the use of revision SHAs or checksums when using managed profiles, setup disk encryption (on macOS), enable AppArmor (on Ubuntu), and other good practices.

That being said, mstrap delegates to other tools we trust, such as Homebrew, Docker, asdf-vm, etc. for tasks to which those tools are suited. Many of these tools require some level of administrator privilege for the trade-off of a good developer experience and convenience.

As such, we are particularly sensitive to any vulnerabilities that could result in code being executed that the user does not expect (both nefariously or otherwise), especially through the use of these tools.

Remote code execution, command injection, and secrets disclosure vulnerabilities are the largest areas of concern, so please follow the instructions below if you notice a potential concern.

Because we delegate to other tools, the issue may be found not to be rooted in mstrap in which case we can point you to where to responsibly disclose.

Please contact me (@maxfierke) directly over email (see GitHub profile) to report any security vulnerabilities you find.