Meeting details

  • Time: on Mar 27th, 2024, at 17:00 UTC. (Other timezones; iCal download)
  • Duration: 1 hour, timeboxed. We start 30min earlier for introductions/socializing.
  • Location: On TPRF’s Slack server, in #cpan-security, w/video.

16:30 UTC – Pre-meeting socializing

17:00 UTC – Meeting start

Welcome

  • Meeting chair: @oalders
  • Meeting secretary: @sjn

Attendees, absents & regrets

  • Attendees
    • @sjn
    • @timlegge (left early)
    • @stigtsp
    • @oalders
    • @petek (left early)
  • Regrets
  • Absents

Approve meeting minutes

  • Previous meeting minutes, up to and including 2024-03-13 was approved in PR#55 by @garu, @oalders and @sjn

  • These minutes to be approved in PR#56

Quick summary of current work

  1. CPAN Metadata & Software Bills of Materials
    • @sjn - Meeting with Steve Springett (OWASP/CycloneDX) next week, about @sjn’s supply chain SBOM roles document
    • @sjn - Started planning proposals for metadata changes + SBOM at PTS
    • @sjn - To start SBOM intro presentation
  2. CPAN Privacy and Compliance
  3. CPAN Provenance & Supply Chain Security
  4. CPAN Security Outreach & Information
  5. CPAN Security Patch Tooling
  6. CPAN Software Composition Analysis
  7. CPAN Transparency Logs
  8. CPAN Vulnerability Index
  9. CPANSec Governance, Policy & Funding
    • @sjn - Update charter to make user security issues with PAUSE out-of-scope, and refer these to pause-admin@perl.org. If the PAUSE folks would like to invite us at some point, we can update the charter again.
      • Information around recent PAUSE account compromises has been lacking, and which would be great to have improved.
      • Review basic opsec on PAUSE systems, it needs to be up-to-speed before we consider working on TUF. RJBS is working on PAUSE-in-the-cloud.
      • CPAN ecosystem trust is also at stake.
      • @ingy contacts NEILB to see if we (CPANSec) can help somehow
      • @stigtsp found some removed dists: https://github.com/batchpause/PAUSE-git/commit/32f55d453cef4abaed76ddcf454130569b342734
    • @oalders, @timlegge, @leont and @sjn - Met on 2023-03-22 about budget that can be used for fundraising. Initial summary is at https://cryptpad.fr/code/#/2/code/edit/ot0NCG1yLcqELuwiqZ2tZD2l/

Ongoing vulnerabilities

  • Two ongoing vulnerabilities being resolved.

Operating changes

  • None.

Upcoming events and deadlines

  1. PTS 2024-04-25 to 2024-04-28

Elect next meeting chair and secretary

  • Chair: @oalders
  • Secretary: @sjn

Next meeting date, time and location

  • Next meeting is April 10th 2024, 17:00 UTC in #cpan-security on TPRF Slack.

18:00 UTC – Meeting end

18:30 UTC – End