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SECURITY.md

Security

Reporting a vulnerability

Report privately via GitHub Security Advisories (https://github.com/dalberto/launchy/security/advisories/new). Please don't open a public issue for a vulnerability. Expect an initial response within a few days.

Trust model

launchy manages macOS launchd jobs — installing, starting, and stopping programs that run on your Mac. Treat that scope honestly:

  • Scope.SYSTEM (LaunchDaemons) requires root and installs jobs that run outside any user session. A compromised daemon plist is a full-system compromise. Validate program argv and env before passing them to Job(scope=Scope.SYSTEM), especially in code that ingests untrusted input.
  • launchy shells out to launchctl. Any string passed as label, program, env values, or working_dir ends up in plist XML and (for the label) in launchctl argv. launchy does not sanitize these — they are treated as trusted input from the caller.
  • The CLI is a thin wrapper. The same trust assumptions apply to anything you pass on the command line.

There aren't any published security advisories