chore: Adjust security policy to explicitly exclude volumetric DDoS (#30548)

## Context

Updating security policy to be more explicit about volumetric DDoS being
out-of-scope for findings, but application level with single requests
being accepted
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Lisa Fiander
2026-10-09 14:31:42 +01:00
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@@ -28,10 +28,11 @@ Our primary concern is around an abuse of the Coder application that allows an
attacker to gain access to another users workspace, or spin up unwanted
workspaces.
- DOS/DDOS attacks affecting availability --> While we do support rate limiting
of requests, we primarily leave this to the owner of the Coder installation.
Our rationale is that a DOS attack only affecting availability is not a
valuable target for attackers.
- Volumetric DoS/DDoS attacks --> Attacks that rely on traffic volume (request
floods, connection or bandwidth exhaustion) are out of scope and are primarily
the responsibility of the installation owner. Application-level DoS, where a
single request or a small number of requests can crash, hang, or exhaust
resources of a Coder component, is in scope.
- Abuse of a compromised user credential --> If a user credential is compromised
outside of the Coder ecosystem, then we consider it beyond the scope of our
application. However, if an unprivileged user could escalate their permissions