Meeting details

  • 2024-11-27 17:00 UTC on #cpansec-discussion on Matrix

15:30 UTC – Pre-meeting socializing

  • Socializing & getting up to speed before the meeting starts properly
  • Discuss organizing projects, swimlanes and issues (…)

16:00 UTC – Meeting start

Welcome

  • @thibaultduponchelle joined :)
  • Meeting chair: @timlegge
  • Meeting secretary: @sjn & @tux

Attendees, absents & regrets

  • Attendees
    • @sjn, @stigtsp, @tux, @timlegge, @garu, @robrwo
  • Regrets
    • @thibaultduponchelle (joined later), @leont

Approve previous meeting minutes

  • Previous meeting minutes was approved @timlegge, @thibaultduponchelle merged by @sjn

Mailing List

  • @stigstp - Discuss recent issues with our mailing lists being public instead of being private
    • @stigtsp - presented taken actions and open issues
    • @sjn - taken decisions should be properly communicated - @stigtsp will start a writeup, @sjn will review
    • means of advertising will be discussed in the upcomming days

Quick summary of current work (Grouped by project)

  1. CPAN Metadata & Software Bills of Materials
    • …
  2. CPAN Privacy and Compliance
    • …
  3. CPAN Provenance & Supply Chain Security
    • …
  4. CPAN Security Outreach & Information
    • New and existing documentation being discussed in relation to open subjects
  5. CPAN Security Patch Tooling
    • …
  6. CPAN Software Composition Analysis
    • …
  7. CPAN Transparency Logs
    • …
  8. CPAN Vulnerability Index
    • …
  9. CPANSec Governance, Policy & Funding
    • …
  10. CPAN Secure by Default
    • …
  11. CPAN Software Composition Analysis
    • …

TLS/HTTPS/CSPRNG/DSA in core

  • @leont implemented BearSSL and is now fighting IO::Socket::SSL. @BooK & @leont are not present to explain

German Sovereign Tech fund

  • @sjn - no work done; @garu’s personal application was rejected: more feedback on why would be welcome
  • @sjn gives more background information and mentions @stuart’s work

Ongoing vulnerabilities

  • @stigtsp - No movement around Mojo’s secure token/secrets issues; Volunteers needed
    • @garu has plans
  • @stigtsp - One more vuln known, needs a volunteer; @timlegge may take a look

CPAN Author’s Security Policy Template/Guidelines

  • @robrwo - working on initial draft - review required
  • @sjn mentions already written documents - maybe merge or restructure
  • new ideas are tossed and proposed by @stigtsp
  • @sjn - issue of setting up security email aliases for dists that go to authors + CPAN sec. May be a good topic for PTS

Eclipse ORC WG

  • @sjn - Workshop planned in December in Amsterdam (spec Steward roles)

NIS2 consultation

  • @sjn - Comments to chapter 5 (Supply chains) submitted together with OpenSSF, FSFE, NLnet Labs and GitHub
    • This group is likely to have a meeting with ENISA in December
  • @sjn - Chapter 3 (Incident response) and chapter 6 (Secure software development) comments being worked on.
    • @abraxxa, @robrwo and some of the folks at Hackeriet have contributed

Perl Toolchain Summit 2025

  • @tux - Date is set to 2024-05-01 … 2024-05-04

CycloneDX 1.7 Sustainability fields

  • @sjn - ongoing; currently working on a taxonomy of non-funding support. Currently slowish

CPAN Meta Requirements and PURLs

  • @sjn - No news

POSIX::2008 vulnerabilities

  • @stigtsp - Probably best to register a CVE

SBOM/Supply Chain

  • @sjn - minor tweaks; working on connecting fields with metadata sources. First PR received

CNA Update

  • @timlegge - Mitre confirmed receipt of the CNA request form and will be reviewed soon.

Recruitment

  • Nothing to report

Other

  • Discussion about a matrix of security-related items for CPAN releases
  • @stigtsp Meeting with tib and Stian next week about Tibs research
    • tib and @timlegge look into PAUSE pentesting

Upcoming events and deadlines

  1. FOSDEM Fringe 2025 - Friday January 31st, Brussels
  2. FOSDEM 2025 - February 1-2, Brussels - three relevant devrooms!
  3. PTS 2025 - Most likely date: first week of May

Operating changes

  • None

Next meeting date, time and location

  • Next meeting is Wednesday 2024-12-11 @ 16:00UTC in #cpansec-discussion on Matrix (17:00 Europe/Amsterdam)

17:20 UTC – Meeting end

17:20 UTC – Post-meeting socializing end