Security fixes are applied to the 1.x release line.

Report security findings privately, following the process on the Apache Commons Security Page. Please do not open a public issue or pull request for a security finding.

Findings against the library are triaged against the Apache Commons Secure XML Threat Model. It defines what the securing guarantees, what is out of scope, and the disposition a report receives.

The workflows in this repository rest on the following trust assumptions:

• apache/commons-* repositories are fully trusted. They are maintained by the same Apache Commons project under the same governance and access controls as this repository.
• The risk of trusting actions/* and github/* is judged acceptable. These are owned by GitHub, the organisation that already runs the workflows and holds our secrets, so trusting its actions adds no party that could not compromise the workflows anyway.

A workflow reference into any of these, by branch or tag instead of a pinned commit, stays inside the accepted boundary. Reports about such unpinned references are out of scope.