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SECURITY.md

Security Policy

Supported Versions

We support the following versions with security updates:

Version Supported
0.2.x
0.1.x

Reporting a Vulnerability

If you discover a security vulnerability in ChemPy, please email security considerations to the maintainers privately rather than using the public issue tracker.

Please include:

  • Description of the vulnerability
  • Steps to reproduce
  • Potential impact
  • Suggested fix (if available)

We will acknowledge receipt and work on a fix with you.

Security Best Practices

When using ChemPy:

  1. Keep your Python version updated
  2. Update ChemPy regularly via pip install --upgrade chempy
  3. Use virtual environments to isolate dependencies
  4. Review code that loads untrusted molecular data

Dependencies

ChemPy depends on:

  • NumPy: Regularly updated with security patches
  • SciPy: Regularly updated with security patches

We regularly update dependency versions to include security patches.

There aren’t any published security advisories