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+# Security
+
+## Reporting a Vulnerability
+
+Please report suspected vulnerabilities privately to the Parquet Project Management
+Committee at private@parquet.apache.org. Do **not** file a public GitHub issue or pull
+request for a suspected vulnerability, as that would disclose it before a fix is available.
+
+When reporting, please include as much of the following as you can:
+ * a description of the vulnerability and its potential impact;
+ * the affected version(s) or commit;
+ * steps to reproduce, and a proof of concept if available.
+
+You should receive an acknowledgement from the security team. Please follow the Apache
+Software Foundation's vulnerability handling process, described at
+https://www.apache.org/security/, and do not publicly disclose the issue until it has been
+resolved and an advisory has been published.
+
+## Threat model
+
+General assumptions about the usage of the Parquet library:
+
+* Read configuration (e.g. Hadoop configuration) is controlled by applications. If an application allows untrusted parties to set the read configuration arbitrarily, that is a security risk independent of whether a Parquet file is involved.
+* Parquet files (their data and metadata) may originate from untrusted sources. The library parses them on a best-effort basis, but a maliciously crafted file can still cause excessive resource consumption (e.g. large memory allocations or decompression bombs). Applications reading untrusted files are responsible for imposing appropriate resource limits (memory, time, input size) around the library. Where appropriate, improvements to resource management in the library are welcome.
+
+### Class loading
+
+Several modules (e.g. parquet-avro, parquet-protobuf, parquet-thrift, etc.) provide functionality to translate Parquet data into Java objects. In the general case, this requires loading classes named in metadata stored in the Parquet files.
+
+As a consequence:
+ * When using these translation layers it is the user's responsibility to make sure their classpath is secure and does not contain any classes that when loaded might cause an adverse issue for their system.
+ * If class loading driven by file contents is problematic, end users should use APIs to directly read the data from Parquet instead of relying on translation.
+ * Arbitrary class loading by itself is not considered a security issue by the library. A security issue must demonstrate further ability to execute
+   arbitrary methods on the instantiated object.