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SECURITY.md

Security Policy

This is a small, experimental zkVM (see docs/ROADMAP.md for exactly what's implemented). It is not audited and should not be trusted with real value. That said, soundness bugs are taken seriously, and responsible disclosure is genuinely useful here.

What counts as a security issue

  • A crafted program, proof, or public-inputs value that causes zkvm-stark to accept a proof it shouldn't (a soundness bug in the AIR).
  • Anything in contracts/ that lets ProofOrchestrator pay out a reward without a genuinely valid, correctly-attested proof.
  • A way to make AttestedVerifier accept an attestation it shouldn't, other than the already-documented trust assumption in docs/THREAT_MODEL.md (compromising the attester key itself isn't a new finding — that trust boundary is already disclosed).
  • A way to make the MCP server or HTTP API (crates/zkvm-host-server) execute something it shouldn't, beyond the already-documented lack of auth (see docs/HOST_SERVICE.md and docs/MCP.md — no auth on either surface is a known, disclosed gap, not a new report).

What doesn't need a private report

Anything already named as a gap in docs/ROADMAP.md, docs/HOST_SERVICE.md, docs/ONCHAIN_VERIFIER.md, or docs/THREAT_MODEL.md — those are documented, known limitations, not vulnerabilities. Feel free to open a normal public issue if you think one of those docs is itself wrong or out of date.

Reporting

Email codesbyfebin@gmail.com with:

  • What you found and why it's a soundness/security issue (not just a bug).
  • A minimal repro if you have one (a .zkasm program, a proof, or a test case is ideal — this repo's whole design philosophy is that soundness claims should be checkable by a test, so a report in that form is the fastest to act on).

Please don't open a public GitHub issue for a real soundness finding until there's been a chance to look at it. Anything else — a typo in a doc, a clippy warning, a test that could be clearer — a normal issue or PR is fine.

There aren't any published security advisories