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@pichlermarc pichlermarc commented May 6, 2026

Which problem is this PR solving?

We currently don't really define what is and what is not a vulnerability. Inspired by Node.js' SECURITY.md, this PR introduces a THREAT_MODEL.md as an extension of our security policy.

This PR is mainly intended to be a place of discussion for now, and I don't expect this to merge as-is.

I think it makes sense to generalize this in the future and have one Threat Model document for Language SIGs, since the challenges will be similar across all of them (the concepts of API/SDK and Instrumentations exist almost everywhere).

Disclouse of AI use: I used Claude Sonnet 4.6 to help me write that text from a bullet-point list that I've drafted.

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mx-psi commented May 13, 2026

Hello! I have been working on a more general document related to the OpenTelemetry security model which is now publicly available over at open-telemetry/sig-security/pull/261. I would appreciate your feedback there, thanks!

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