1# Security Policy 2 3If you have discovered a security vulnerability in this project, please report it 4privately. **Do not disclose it as a public issue.** This gives us time to work with you 5to fix the issue before public exposure, reducing the chance that the exploit will be 6used before a patch is released. 7 8You may submit the report in the following ways: 9 10- send an email to security@libarchive.de; and/or 11- send us a [private vulnerability report](https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/security/advisories/new) 12 13Please provide the following information in your report: 14 15- A description of the vulnerability and its impact 16- How to reproduce the issue 17 18This project is maintained by volunteers on a reasonable-effort basis. As such, we ask 19that you give me 90 days to work on a fix before public exposure. 20