From 02197ea0b8d8f100fa5a7d235af18a2119b11def Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Artem Smotrakov <artem.smotrakov@sap.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2020 13:47:00 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Added a security policy

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 SECURITY.md | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 SECURITY.md

diff --git a/SECURITY.md b/SECURITY.md
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+<!--
+    Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+    or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+    distributed with this work for additional information
+    regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+    to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+    "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+    with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+    Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+    software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+    "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+    KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+    specific language governing permissions and limitations
+    under the License.
+-->
+
+# Reporting a vulnerability
+
+If you believe you found a vulnerability in Apache HttpClient,
+please contact [the Apache Security Team](https://www.apache.org/security/).