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SECURITY.md

Security Policy

openPoly is experimental software that can place real-money orders and that handles wallet credentials and signing. Security matters here more than in a typical project — please read this before reporting an issue.

Public release and maintenance are led by @KoNananachan.

Reporting a vulnerability

Do not open a public GitHub issue for security problems. Disclose privately:

  • Preferred: GitHub's private vulnerability reporting — go to the repo's Security tab → Report a vulnerability. (Maintainers: enable it under Settings → Code security and analysis → Private vulnerability reporting.)
  • If that is unavailable, contact the maintainers privately.

Please include a description, reproduction steps, affected version/commit, and the potential impact. We will acknowledge your report and work with you on a fix and coordinated disclosure.

What's in scope

  • Credential handling — leaked keys, bypass of the *_ref indirection, secrets written to disk or logs, anything that exposes a private key or funder.
  • Order execution — anything that could place, modify, or cancel orders unexpectedly, or move funds without explicit user intent.
  • Wallet signing — incorrect or unsafe signing behavior.
  • Mode safety — anything that could cause live (real-money) trading without the explicit opt-in.
  • Dependencies — known-vulnerable third-party packages.

What's not a vulnerability

  • Trading losses. openPoly is a high-risk trading framework; losing money is market risk, not a security bug. See the DISCLAIMER.
  • Issues that only exist in your own openpoly/user_sections/ code (it runs with full backend privileges by design and is not sandboxed).

Secret-handling rules (users & contributors)

  • Never commit .env, *.db/WAL sidecars, or any key material — all of these are gitignored for a reason.
  • All credentials resolve via *_ref indirection (env: / local: / keychain). There are no hardcoded secrets in this repo and there should never be.
  • Paper mode is the default; live trading must be an explicit opt-in.

No warranty

openPoly is provided under the MIT License with no warranty. Running it — especially in live mode — is entirely at your own risk.

There aren't any published security advisories