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Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF)

OpenSSF is a community of software developers and security engineers who are working together to secure open source software for the greater public good.
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OpenSSF is committed to working both upstream and with existing communities to advance open source security for all.

We foster collaboration, establish best practices, and develop innovative solutions to secure the development, maintenance, and consumption of open source software. OpenSSF is part of the nonprofit Linux Foundation.

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For any questions, concerns, reports, etc., please email operations@openssf.org.

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Membership

We encourage all individual contributors to work with their employers to become members. We aim to grow an active, healthy community of contributors, reviewers, and code owners. Learn more about the requirements and responsibilities of membership in our Membership page or see current members.

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  1. wg-best-practices-os-developers wg-best-practices-os-developers Public

    The Best Practices for OSS Developers working group is dedicated to raising awareness and education of secure code best practices for open source developers.

    JavaScript 1.1k 208

  2. ai-ml-security ai-ml-security Public

    Working Group on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML) Security

    192 31

  3. wg-securing-critical-projects wg-securing-critical-projects Public archive

    Helping allocate resources to secure the critical open source projects we all depend on.

    411 64

  4. wg-securing-software-repos wg-securing-software-repos Public

    OpenSSF Working Group on Securing Software Repositories

    134 34

  5. tac tac Public

    Technical Advisory Council

    152 86

  6. foundation foundation Public

    OpenSSF Governance and Legal Docs

    75 20

Repositories

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  • wg-best-practices-os-developers Public

    The Best Practices for OSS Developers working group is dedicated to raising awareness and education of secure code best practices for open source developers.

    ossf/wg-best-practices-os-developers's past year of commit activity
    JavaScript 1,073 Apache-2.0 208 74 (2 issues need help) 20 Updated Sep 30, 2026
  • cve-bin-tool Public

    The CVE Binary Tool helps you determine if your system includes known vulnerabilities. You can scan binaries for over 350 common, vulnerable components (openssl, libpng, libxml2, expat and others), or if you know the components used, you can get a list of known vulnerabilities associated with an SBOM or a list of components and versions.

    ossf/cve-bin-tool's past year of commit activity
    Python 1,767 GPL-3.0 652 154 (4 issues need help) 79 Updated Sep 30, 2026
  • malicious-packages Public

    A repository of reports of malicious packages identified in Open Source package repositories, consumable via the Open Source Vulnerability (OSV) format.

    ossf/malicious-packages's past year of commit activity
    Go 619 Apache-2.0 150 35 29 Updated Sep 30, 2026
  • alpha-omega Public

    Our mission is to catalyze sustainable improvements to critical open source software projects and ecosystems.

    ossf/alpha-omega's past year of commit activity
    Open Policy Agent 144 Apache-2.0 69 0 3 Updated Sep 30, 2026
  • pvtr-github-repo-scanner Public

    Privateer plugin for scanning the security hygiene of a GitHub repository.

    ossf/pvtr-github-repo-scanner's past year of commit activity
    Go 31 Apache-2.0 17 15 3 Updated Sep 30, 2026
  • oss-crs Public

    Cyber Reasoning Systems for Bug-Finding and Patching in Open Source Software

    ossf/oss-crs's past year of commit activity
    Python 163 MIT 33 32 (3 issues need help) 9 Updated Sep 30, 2026
  • scorecard-infra Public

    OpenSSF Scorecard infrastructure

    ossf/scorecard-infra's past year of commit activity
    Go 2 Apache-2.0 2 13 9 Updated Sep 30, 2026
  • security-insights Public

    Machine-readable specification for the attestation of security-relevant data.

    ossf/security-insights's past year of commit activity
    Go 81 21 7 1 Updated Sep 30, 2026
  • scorecard Public

    OpenSSF Scorecard - Security health metrics for Open Source

    ossf/scorecard's past year of commit activity
    Go 5,728 Apache-2.0 733 388 (11 issues need help) 53 Updated Sep 30, 2026
  • scorecard-webapp Public

    Website and API for OpenSSF Scorecard

    ossf/scorecard-webapp's past year of commit activity
    HTML 33 Apache-2.0 33 36 (7 issues need help) 20 Updated Sep 30, 2026