
cornucopia pre-release
Card game for software teams to identify security requirements in Agile, conventional, and formal development processes. Language, platform, and technology agnostic.
OWASP Cornucopia project
OWASP Cornucopia is a mechanism in the form of a card game to assist software development teams Identify security requirements in Agile, conventional, and formal development processes. It is language, platform, and technology agnostic. Visit: https://cornucopia.owasp.org/
The cross-references on the Web App Edition deck relate to the following versions of other OWASP and external resources:
Standards
- OWASP Artificial Intelligence Security Verification Standard v1.0 (AISVS)
- OWASP Application Security Verification Standard (ASVS) v4 (2019) and v5 (2025)
- OWASP Mobile Application Security Verification Standard (MASVS) v2.1
Maturity Models
Top 10:
Guides
- OWASP Automated Threats to Web Applications
- OWASP AI Testing Guide
- OWASP Mobile Application Security Testing Guide (MASTG) v1.7
Other sources:
- Mitre ATT&CK
- Mitre Atlas™
- Mitre CAPEC™ v3.9
- OWASP Dev Guide Web Application Checklist
- SAFECode Practical Security Stories and Security Tasks for Agile Development Environments (SAFECode) July 2012
- STRIDE
- PHANTOM-B
Contributing to Development
Large binary files
Please install git-lfs to ensure you can download the output files.
Install from https://git-lfs.com/
Then pull the binaries from git lfs.
git lfs pull
Using Scripts to develop and build Cornucopia
Scripts to build the Cornucopia Card Decks
Please read README.md
Additional Utility Scripts
Please read README.md
Security Scanning
First time setup:
pip install pre-commit
pre-commit install
A Bandit pre-commit hook scans Python scripts for security issues on commit. It runs automatically via pre-commit (medium severity, high confidence).
To run manually:
pre-commit run bandit --all-files
Building and Deploying the Cornucopia website
https://cornucopia.owasp.org contains the card browser for each of the cards in the cornucopia suits together with the taxonomy and in depth explaination for each of the cards in the suits.
please read README.md
Building and Deploying the Cornucopia Game Engine: Copi
Copi (https://copi.owasp.org) is an online game engine where you can play Cornucopia and Elevation of Privilege. You can play all the editions of Cornucopia (website and mobile) as well as the Elevation of Privileges game.
please read README.md
Printing
The latest printable files are released under the pre-release. Please download final printable files from there.
The docx/pdf files can be easily printed by any desktop printer, but for the best quality use the idml InDesign files. When sending the files to a printing facility you may have to supply the fonts that has been used in order to create the work.
In case the printing facility doesn't have the fonts at hand you'll find the installable fonts under resources/templates/Fonts in this repository. They are both open source and free for commercial use.
The fonts can also be downloaded from the web.
Fivo Sans: https://www.fontsc.com/font/fivo-sans
Atkinson Hyperlegible: https://brailleinstitute.org/freefont
The following fonts are used:
- Leaflet: Noto Sans (Light/Regular/Italic/Medium (Italic)/SemiBoldItalic/Extra Bold)
- Leaflet: Noto Sans (Thin/Light (Italic)/Italic/Medium//Extra Bold)
- case
- Noto Sans Condensed Bold
- Noto Sans Condensed Extra Bold
- Noto Sans Condensed Medium
- Noto Sans ExtraCondensed Extra Bold
- Noto Sans ExtraCondensed Extra Medium
- Logos:
- Noto Sans Condensed Bold
- Noto Sans Condensed Extra Bold
- Noto Sans Extra Condensed Extra Bold
Dimensions
Card decks:
The "bridge" files are (2.25 x 3.5" or 56mm x 87mm) standard playing cards. The "tarot" files are (2.75 x 4.75" or 70mm x 121 mm) standard playing cards.
Cases:
The "bridge" is 60 x 89.25 mm x 27.15 mm The "tarot" is 122.2 x 73.1 x 29.1 mm
the "tarot" box has standard dimensions used by Agile Stationary to print their Cyber Security Cornucopia Edition.
Leaflets:
The "bridge" files are 56mm x 87mm The "tarot" files are (2.75 x 4.75")
The "bridge" and "tarot" version is 16-20 page spread depending on in which language you print.
Please be aware, that the table of content for the indesign leaflet has to be adjusted for all language versions before printing except for the english version!! This is because indesign does not support auto adjusting the TOC. You may need to adjust the font size to fit either a 16 or a 20 page leaflet spread. DO NOT PRINT an 18 Page leaflet! It won't look good.
Bleed:
A standard bleed set to 3mm for all 4 sides.
Paper
Use 300gsm for both the bridge cards and the tarot cards. For the case, we would recommend folding box board with anti-scuff lamination and 100gsm uncoated stock for the leaflet. The leaflets could also be laminated, but it might make them springy.
Release process
This repository follows semver approach. Release a new
version means to tag commit in master branch. Please do not use same tag
twice.
To avoid common mistakes there is a script which will guide you through process and push correct tag from your machine.
To release a new patch:
make release
make release-patch
To release a new minor version:
make release-minor
To release a new major version:
make release-major
Credits
Cornucopia was originally conceived and created by Colin Watson and has since had contributions from a worldwide team of volunteers. Please see About Cornucopia for more details.
License
General Licensing Terms
© 2025 OWASP Foundation Except, where otherwise noted, content in this repository is licensed under a CC-BY-SA-4.0 The OWASP Cornucopia converter and Website are examples of this. If you want to use any of the work in your own project please link back to our website and give credit to OWASP Cornucopia. Individuals that have contributed to parts of the project are credited through the OWASP Cornucopia project. You may refer to the CC-BY-SA-4.0 license for guidance as long as you are using our latest work.
Cloudflare Worker Content Security Policy Nonce Generator (nonce-worker.js)
MIT License Copyright (c) 2020 Move Your Digital, Inc.
Please read README.md
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC™)
Use of the Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC), and the associated references from capec.mitre.org are subject to the Terms of Use. Copyright © 2007–2025, The MITRE Corporation. CAPEC and the CAPEC logo are trademarks of The MITRE Corporation.
Copi - The Cornucopia Game Engine
Copi - The Cornucopia Game Engine is licensed under GNU AFFERO GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
Elevation of MLSec (MLSec)
© 2024 Kantega AS. Text for Elevation of MLSec (MLSec) is licensed under CC-BY-SA-4.0. Elevation of MLSec is created by Elias Brattli Sørensen (design: Jorun Kristin Bremseth) when working at Kantega AS (see: kantega/elevation-of-mlsec).
Elevation of Privilege (EoP)
© 2010 Microsoft Corporation. Text for Elevation of Privilege (EoP) is licensed under CC-BY-SA-3.0 EoP is created by Affiliate Prof. Adam Shostack (see: adamshostack/eop)
Font licensing
For font licensing, please read font README.md
OWASP Cornucopia Mobile App Edition (version smaller than 2.0)
Text and code mapping for OWASP Cornucopia Mobile App Edition is licensed under CC-BY-SA-3.0
OWASP Cornucopia Website App Edition (version smaller than 3.0)
Text and code mapping for OWASP Cornucopia Website App Edition is licensed under CC-BY-SA-3.0
OWASP Cumulus
© 2025 OWASP Foundation. Text for OWASP Cumulus is licensed under CC-BY-SA-4.0. OWASP Cumulus is created by Christoph Niehoff. More information can be found on their site (see: owasp.org/www-project-cumulus).
PHANTOM-B
Copyright ©2026 Shostack + Associates. This is PHANTOM-B 1.0, Q3 2026. PHANTOM-B is licensed CC-BY Also see: Why PHANTOM-B?
version-up.sh
Copyright (C) 2017, Oleksandr Kucherenko under MIT
Our Threat Models
See: SECURITY.md