Appropriate location for vulnerability scanning questions?
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Hi,
Let me start by saying I did read over https://nextcloud.com/security/ and I am aware of https://hackerone.com/nextcloud . However this seems to be for supporting the actual reporting of known vulnerabilities.
I am not a researcher. I work for a large open source company in a highly technical role, but I am not in security. I pointed some vuln scanners at my own nextcloud as part of hygiene to make sure things are working as expected. I ended up with some questions which are not the same as filing a report. I also don't want to cause noise on a serious channel if it turns out my questions are very n00bish.
Where is an appropriate place to ask questions about what I am looking at in the output of my scans?
Let me be clear. I AM NOT ASKING FOR A TUTORIAL. I have specific questions about things I have already done. For example in RHEL and Ubuntu they backport security patches so the version of the software (say apache) is often a false-flag. These are the types of things I would like to ask about Nextcloud and the libraries therein
Thank you
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- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reviewing the linked Nextcloud security page and HackerOne guidance, then identify whether either resource names a channel for questions about vulnerability-scanner results. Done means documenting or confirming the appropriate place to ask these questions without treating them as vulnerability reports.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- apache, php, ubuntu
- Domain
- documentation, security
- Issue type
- Documentation
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- 1/5
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- Under an hour
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- Active
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100