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Security: 0xSteph/llm-rate-limit-proxy

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SECURITY.md

Security policy

Reporting a vulnerability

Please report privately through GitHub's private vulnerability reporting rather than opening a public issue.

Include what you found, how to reproduce it, and what an attacker gets out of it. I'll acknowledge within a few days and keep you updated as it's worked.

What is in scope

This process holds every upstream provider key you give it, so the things worth reporting are roughly:

  • Anything that reveals a provider key, a client key secret, or an operator password hash through an API, the console, logs, or metrics
  • Authentication or authorisation bypass — reaching the data plane without a valid client key, reaching operator-only settings without a superuser session, or acting on another owner's client keys
  • Session handling flaws: forgery, fixation, or a session outliving the password reset that should have ended it
  • A panic or unbounded resource use reachable from untrusted input (request paths, bodies, upstream response headers, cookies, the config store)
  • Anything that makes the proxy exceed a configured upstream rate limit, since correctness of pacing is the guarantee this project exists to provide

What is out of scope

  • Exposing the proxy to a hostile network on purpose. It binds loopback by default and terminates no TLS; HOST=0.0.0.0 without a reverse proxy in front is a deployment choice, not a vulnerability.
  • Anyone with write access to DATA_DIR or the ability to run code as the service user. That file holds live credentials at mode 0600; the threat model assumes the host itself is trusted.
  • Denial of service from a client that already holds a valid client key.
  • Missing hardening that is documented as missing in the README's security posture section.

Supported versions

The most recent release. This is a young project — please upgrade before reporting, in case you've found something already fixed.

There aren't any published security advisories