Please do not report security vulnerabilities through public GitHub issues, pull requests, or discussions. Use the private channel described below.

Security fixes are released for the versions listed below. darsyn/ip follows a deliberate compatibility policy: a major line drops a PHP version only when newer language syntax makes the older version impossible to support.

If you are on an end-of-life line, the fix for any reported issue will be to upgrade to a supported one.

Please report security vulnerabilities privately using GitHub's private vulnerability reporting: go to the Security tab and click Report a vulnerability. If you are unable to use GitHub for this, email [email protected] instead.

To help triage and resolve the report quickly, please include as much of the following as you can:

• the type of issue (e.g. incorrect address classification, parsing flaw, comparison/range bug with a security impact);
• the full path of the source file(s) involved;
• the affected tag, branch, or commit (or a direct URL);
• any special configuration required to reproduce the issue;
• step-by-step instructions to reproduce it;
• proof-of-concept or exploit code, if you have it; and
• the impact — including how an attacker might exploit the issue.

This is a volunteer-maintained open-source project. With that in mind:

• I will acknowledge your report as soon as I read it (email notifications are turned on for reporting via GitHub and filtered to never be sent to spam).
• A confirmed issue is fixed and a new release is published before any public advisory goes out.
• With your permission, you will be credited in the advisory.
• There is no bug bounty or monetary reward; I will not agree to fixed-date embargoes, multi-vendor coordination, or NDAs.

In scope: defects with a security impact in this library's own code (src/) — IP address parsing, binary conversion, comparison, range/CIDR calculations, and the RFC-based classification helpers.

Out of scope: vulnerabilities in your application's use of the library, issues in third-party or bundled dependencies (please report those to their respective maintainers), and the documentation site's hosting infrastructure.

A note on using this library for security decisions: the classification helpers (isPublicUse(), isPrivateUse(), etc) and CIDR helpers (inRange(), etc) report RFC-defined categories. When you rely on them for an access-control decision (allow/deny-list, SSRF guard, etc), canonicalise the address first and treat the result as one layer of defence, not the only one.

In the age of AI, any security exploit found by AI should be assumed to already be known to the public. AI-assisted reports hold the same weight as those reported by humans, but accountability always lands with the human controlling the AI. Use of AIs does not disqualify reports; unnecessary and abusive reporting does.

tl;dr: AI-assisted reports welcome, must be human-verified.