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Security: PathGao/Nifro

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Security

Reporting a vulnerability

Please report security issues privately through GitHub's private vulnerability reporting rather than as a public issue. That form is the only channel — there is one maintainer and no security mailing list, and a public issue for a live vulnerability is the one thing that cannot be undone.

Expect a first reply within a week. If a report holds up, the fix ships in the next release and the advisory is published with it, crediting you unless you ask otherwise.

What is in scope

Nifro renders arbitrary web pages, chosen by the user, in a WKWebView behind their windows. The interesting boundary is between that page and the machine:

  • A page escaping the web view, or reaching anything outside the app sandbox.
  • A site entry in sites/ whose CSS or JavaScript does something other than lay out the page — exfiltrating data, calling out to a third party, or reading the user's other websites' settings. Entries are pasted into other people's machines, so this is treated as a security bug, not a content dispute.
  • The nifro:// URL scheme, and the Shortcuts and Share Extension entry points: anything reachable from another application that changes state without the user's involvement.
  • The release pipeline: a signed build that is not what this repository says it is.

What is not

  • A page the user deliberately loaded doing something the user asked for. The app runs pages the user chose, with the JavaScript the user pasted; that is the feature.
  • Anything that requires the attacker to already have the user's account.
  • Gatekeeper warnings on directly downloaded builds. That is expected and documented in docs/RELEASE.md — builds are self-signed and not notarized. Homebrew is the supported route.

Supported versions

The latest release only. This is a one-maintainer project and there are no backport branches.

There aren't any published security advisories