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+# Security Policy
+
+## Reporting a Vulnerability
+
+If you find a vulnerability in cvelib, please report it privately to secalert@redhat.com.
+
+In addition to the description of the vulnerability, if possible please include a short reproducer,
+a proposed severity rating (for example, see
+[Red Hat's severity ratings](https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/)), and other
+classifying metadata such as a [CWE](https://cwe.mitre.org/) ID or a
+[CVSS](https://www.first.org/cvss/) score.