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Re: Question About Ethics and Full Disclosure

Just my 2 cents - why reporting it to US-CERT as an exceptional "US"-case? I really don't see why US should exclusively be informed about all disclosures of vulnerabilities; not to mention the fact that I trust CERT to be reporting the disclosures to them if they find that action appropriate. 

Greetings,

Stefan de Bruijn.


Joe Klein wrote:


Below is an outline for my disclosure process.


Vulnerability Found:
1. E-Mail & Call company about finding - Document vulnerability 
        - Document date/time/who you talked to.
- Provide an 'ethical disclosure' reporting deadline - one to nine months, depending on the vulnerability 
        - Inform them you will be reporting them to www.cert.org and
www.us-cert.gov 
2. Report Vulnerability to:
        A. www.cert.org :
http://www.cert.org/reporting/vulnerability_form.txt
        B. www.us-cert.gov : cert@xxxxxxxx

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Vulnerability is addressed - day upgrade/patch is released

1. Disclose to your favorite list/lists
        - Disclose your process
        - Disclose your due diligence
                - communication to/from company
                - posting to cert.org and us-cert.gov
        - Disclose the vulnerability

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Vulnerability not addressed - one to nine months

1. E-Mail & Call company
        - Documentation of vulnerability
        - Documentation of your due diligence
                - reporting communication to/from company
                - reporting to cert.org and us-cert.gov
        - Provide date of disclosure

Day of Disclosure:

1. Disclose to your favorite list/lists
        - Disclose your process
        - Disclose your due diligence
                - communication to/from company
                - posting to cert.org and us-cert.gov
        - Disclose the vulnerability


Opinions?



-----Original Message-----
From: Kevin E. Casey [mailto:kcasey@xxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2004 4:31 PM 
To: tommy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; frogman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: bugtraq@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; security-basics@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx;
vuln-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; webappsec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: Question About Ethics and Full Disclosure


Try calling the sales department for the shopping cart vendor.  Tell
them you hard about the 2 vulnerabilities, thll them that when they are
fixed, you might perhaps buy their product...  Sales motivates
development... Or at the least might get you to a person at the vendor
who cares.

-----Original Message-----
From: Tom [mailto:tommy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2004 3:43 PM 
To: frogman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: bugtraq@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; security-basics@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx;
vuln-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; webappsec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Question About Ethics and Full Disclosure


I have sat on 2 vulnerabilities for a shopping cart for over a year and
nothing has changed.  Now I have found a 3rd with new services added to
this shopping cart. 
I have emailed support several times but NEVER get a response. As a
security professional and not to be Unethical what would be a
recommended path to follow?
        
* Notify their customers (several 100)
* Notify the Payment Gateways they are Authorized to use (VeriSign,
PayPal, Authorize.NET)
* Be a total A** and just release it to all the mailing lists and at
DEFCON

BTW...I have sent several emails to various parts of VeriSign and NOBODY
has responded as to the proper person to notify within the organization
about this. I chose VeriSign because this cart is at the Top of Their
List!

IF anyone knows who to contact from VeriSign, authorize.net and PayPal
about this please email me directly.

Thanks,

Tom Ryan


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