FerrumKV is early-stage software (0.x). Security fixes are applied to the latest master branch and the most recent release tag only. There are no separate backport branches yet.

Do not open a public GitHub issue for security vulnerabilities.

Please report suspected vulnerabilities privately by emailing security@phaethix.dev. Include:

1. A description of the issue and its potential impact.
2. The FerrumKV version or git commit you tested against.
3. A minimal reproduction (server start flags + redis-cli commands, or a short script).
4. Any known mitigations.

You should receive an acknowledgement within 72 hours. We will work with you to validate the report, agree on a fix timeline, and coordinate public disclosure once a release patches the issue. Please do not disclose the vulnerability publicly before a fix is released.

In scope:

• Crashes, panics, or undefined behaviour reachable from client input over the RESP2 protocol.
• Data corruption or loss not covered by documented AOF durability semantics.
• Memory-safety issues (in practice unsafe is forbidden in the codebase; any unsafe block is itself a report).
• Authentication/authorization bypass (currently FerrumKV has no auth — see below).

Out of scope:

• The intentional lack of authentication / TLS. FerrumKV is designed to run behind a trusted network boundary, like a single-node Redis without requirepass. If you need auth or TLS, open a feature request.
• Resource-exhaustion attacks from clients you have already admitted beyond the documented max-connections cap.
• Issues in upstream dependencies — report those to the upstream crate.

FerrumKV does not authenticate clients and does not support TLS. Bind it to a loopback or private interface only, and firewall the listening port (127.0.0.1:6380 by default). Treat any client that can reach the port as fully trusted.