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SECURITY.md

Security Policy

Reporting a vulnerability

Please report security vulnerabilities privately. Do not open a public issue for a security report.

Include a description, reproduction steps, affected versions, and any known impact. We aim to acknowledge reports within a few business days.

Scope

browserserve runs untrusted web content in Chromium on your infrastructure. Notes relevant to a secure deployment:

  • Chromium's sandbox stays on where the host allows it. Where the host blocks it, browserserve falls back to --no-sandbox and warns; isolation between sessions is unaffected, since it comes from the per-session profile directory. To keep the sandbox on in Docker, run with the shipped docker/seccomp.json. For untrusted content, set chrome.requireSandbox: true to refuse the fallback and fail closed instead.
  • The runtime performs all real work as a non-root user (uid 999). It starts as root only to self-delegate a cgroup slice when the host allows it, then drops privileges.
  • Session isolation is process- and directory-per-session; where the host permits, per-session cgroup memory caps and atomic tree-kill are added. Run browserserve doctor to see the active isolation tier.

Pre-release software: security guarantees are not final until a 1.0 release.

There aren't any published security advisories