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* SECURITY.md: Tweak/expand text around configurations.

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Joe Orton
2026-07-14 14:23:53 +00:00
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@@ -42,6 +42,12 @@ Any security vulnerability SHOULD be reproducible:
Issues which are reproducible only using instrumented builds (such as
ASAN, or under valgrind) should be clearly explained as such.
Issues which depend on a specially crafted server configuration MUST
include references (such as public documentation) which show why that
is a configuration that would arise naturally in common deployments.
Special considerations also apply to any issues requiring `.htaccess`
files, per the [Delegated Configuration](#delegated-configuration) section.
## Basic model
Processing of requests by remote untrusted users (HTTP clients) MUST
@@ -110,11 +116,18 @@ gain a significant degree of control over, and access to, the server
at run-time:
* site authors are trusted to not attack the server with malformed or
malicious .htaccess files (for example, files of excessive size).
malicious .htaccess files
* site authors gain access to some data (such as files or the
environment) which is otherwise restricted.
Examples of malicious `.htaccess` files include, but are not limited
to:
* configuration files of excessive size
* configurations using deliberately constructed regular expressions
which are expensive to evaluate
In configurations supporting in-process scripting language interpreters
which are not sandboxed, such as `mod_lua` or `mod_php`,
site authors have exactly equivalent privileges to the user which the