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SECURITY.md

Security Policy

Clinical KB (psychiatry.tools) is a private, single-maintainer clinical reference application that handles private guideline documents and grounded answer generation. Security reports are taken seriously and handled privately.

Reporting a vulnerability

Please do not open a public issue, pull request, or discussion for a security problem, and do not disclose it publicly before it is resolved.

Report privately using GitHub Private Vulnerability Reporting — the "Report a vulnerability" button under this repository's Security tab (Security → Advisories → Report a vulnerability). If that channel is unavailable to you, contact the maintainer (@BigSimmo) directly through GitHub.

When reporting, please include:

  • A description of the issue and its impact.
  • Steps to reproduce (a minimal proof of concept is ideal).
  • Affected paths, routes, or components if known.
  • Any suggested remediation.

You can expect an initial acknowledgement within a few days. Because this is a single-maintainer project, timelines are best-effort; please allow a reasonable period for a fix before any disclosure.

Supported versions

The application is continuously deployed from main. Only the current main / production deployment is supported — there are no maintained release branches or backports. Fixes land on main and roll out via the standard deployment path (docs/deployment-architecture.md).

Scope

In scope: the Next.js app tier, API routes, the ingestion worker, Supabase schema/RLS/RPCs, and the retrieval/answer pipeline in this repository.

Out of scope: third-party managed services themselves (Supabase, OpenAI, Railway, GitHub) — report those to the respective vendor. Note this is a clinical prototype, not validated clinical decision support (see README.md → "Clinical Safety Status").

Handling sensitive findings

  • Never include real secrets, credentials, tokens, or patient-identifiable data in a report. Reference the affected file/location and the class of exposure instead.
  • Do not run intrusive tests against the live psychiatry.tools deployment or the live Supabase project. Prefer local/demo mode (README.md → Setup).

Related security documentation

  • docs/rag-injection-threat-model.md — prompt-injection threat model.
  • docs/tenancy-defense-in-depth-review.md — multi-tenant isolation review.
  • docs/privacy-impact-assessment.md — privacy impact assessment and launch blockers.
  • docs/clinical-hazard-analysis.md — clinical hazard register.
  • docs/openai-cross-border-basis.md — cross-border data-processing basis.

Automated controls in CI: secret scanning (Gitleaks, .github/workflows/secret-scan.yml) and static analysis (Semgrep, .github/workflows/sast.yml).

There aren't any published security advisories