> On 9 Mar 2023, at 18:18, Daniel Stenberg <dan...@haxx.se> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 9 Mar 2023, Daniel Gustafsson wrote:
> 
>> This opens us up to the risk that we've misjudged the severity, and we 
>> publish what we think is Low but in reality should've been High (or higher). 
>> Ideally this shouldn't happen, and thus the risk is low, but known risks are 
>> better than unknown.  If we are on the fence regarding severity it should be 
>> fine to keep it hidden as per the process for High.
> 
> Ah yes, good point. We should be fairly sure of the severity level before we 
> make a (public) PR to fix any security flaw.
> 
> Do you think it is worth adding words about that in the SECURITY-PROCESS 
> document?

I think the current wording in your PR suffice as it's "vague" enough to allow
the security team to make the call on a case by case basis.

--
Daniel Gustafsson

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