Trail of Bits has committed their entire security research organization⁠(opens in a new window) towards this effort for our initial surge. They are working directly with maintainers to investigate and validate vulnerabilities, develop and test patches, and coordinate disclosure of vulnerabilities.

Additionally, we will be partnering with HackerOne and Calif who are helping us take our efforts further with vulnerability triage, coordinated disclosure, and additional focused vulnerability discovery efforts.

Each engagement under Patch the Planet begins in consultation with the maintainer. For each collaboration, security engineers work with maintainers to understand each project’s needs, preferences, and where additional security effort would be most useful: vulnerability validation, patch development, CI/CD improvements, or longer-term security engineering. Once aligned, researchers investigate potential vulnerabilities, validate meaningful issues, develop or refine patches, support testing, and coordinate disclosure through the project's established channels.

Initial participants include cURL, NATS Server, pyca/cryptography, Sigstore, aiohttp, the Go project, freenginx, Python, and python.org. These projects support widely used networking, cryptography, software supply chain, and language infrastructure, where stronger security can benefit a broad range of downstream products and services. Additional projects will join in future rounds.