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Security.txt

security.txt is a proposed IETF standard to allow independent security researchers to easily report vulnerabilities. The standard defines that a text file called security.txt should be found at „/.well-known/security.txt“. For legacy compatibility reasons the file might also be placed at „/security.txt“.

In OpenStack-Ansible, security.txt is implemented in haproxy as all public endpoints reside behind it. It defaults to directing any request paths that end with /security.txt to the text file using an ACL rule in haproxy.

Enabling security.txt

Use the following process to add a security.txt file to your deployment using OpenStack-Ansible:

  1. Write the contents of the security.txt file in accordance with the standard.

  2. Define the contents of security.txt in the variable haproxy_security_txt_content in the /etc/openstack_deploy/user_variables.yml file:

haproxy_security_txt_content: |
    # This is my example security.txt file
    # Please see https://securitytxt.org/ for details of the specification of this file

  1. Update haproxy

# openstack-ansible haproxy-install.yml

Advanced security.txt ACL

In some cases you may need to change the haproxy ACL used to redirect requests to the security.txt file, such as adding extra domains.

The haproxy ACL is updated by overriding the variable haproxy_map_entries inside haproxy_security_txt_service.