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ClickHouse bug bounty programs

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ClickHouse runs two public programs: a Bugcrowd bug bounty paying up to $2,500 and a Sorona bug bounty paying up to $2,500.

Top reward
$2,500
Bugcrowd
Programs
2
2 pay cash
Targets in scope
15
2 types, deduplicated
Last change
None yet
Tracked since Nov 2026

Where to report

2 programs, side by side. Report where the affected target is in scope; when two programs cover it, pick the one that pays more.

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ClickHouse

Bugcrowd · Pays the most of the 2 programs: up to $2,500.

Amounts are the top reward per severity in the currency each program pays. Green marks the highest per severity. First response is the platform's measured average when it publishes one, else what the policy promises.

What is in scope

15 targets across all 2 programs, each listed once with the programs that cover it. 8 excluded.

  • https://clickhou.se/bugcrowd

    Web

    Covered by Bugcrowd

  • https://clickhouse.com

    Web

    Covered by Sorona

  • https://cloud.langfuse.com

    Web

    Covered by Bugcrowd

  • Authentication and the access-control model that separates tenants inside one cluster: users, roles, quotas, row policies and the LDAP and Kerberos paths

    Products and areas

    Covered by Sorona

  • ClickHouse Cloud environment hosted by ClickHouse

    Products and areas

    Covered by Bugcrowd

  • clickhouse-keeper, the Raft coordination service, and the clickhouse-client and clickhouse-local binaries shipped from the same repository

    Products and areas

    Covered by Sorona

  • ClickHouse-operated web properties, as secondary assets; the target list is deliberately narrow at a scope rating of 1 of 4

    Products and areas

    Covered by Sorona

  • clickhouse-server and everything a client can reach on it: the native TCP protocol, the HTTP interface, and the MySQL and PostgreSQL wire-protocol emulation

    Products and areas

    Covered by Sorona

  • https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse

    Products and areas

    Covered by Bugcrowd

  • Table engines and the MergeTree storage layer, plus replication and distributed query execution across a cluster

    Products and areas

    Covered by Sorona

  • Table functions and external integrations: S3, URL, File, HDFS, the JDBC and ODBC bridges, and the Kafka, MySQL and PostgreSQL engines

    Products and areas

    Covered by Sorona

  • The engagement asks researchers to "help us identify vulnerabilities in our open-source assets", and the repository's SECURITY.md routes every ClickHouse vulnerability report here, so the open-source engine is in scope in full across the P1 to P4 ladder

    Products and areas

    Covered by Sorona

  • The input and output formats and the compression codecs, which are the widest untrusted-data surface the server has

    Products and areas

    Covered by Sorona

  • The SQL surface: the parser, the analyser and the interpreter, along with the functions and aggregate functions the query engine exposes

    Products and areas

    Covered by Sorona

  • User-defined and executable functions, which run code the server was configured to trust

    Products and areas

    Covered by Sorona

No target matches. Try part of a host name, such as the company name.

Out of scope 8

Don't test these. A program can exclude a host another program covers; the program you report to decides.

  • https://learn.clickhouse.com

    Bugcrowd

  • New support cases, Chat, Request new integration form

    Bugcrowd

  • Share feedback form

    Bugcrowd

  • Vulnerability scanners

    Bugcrowd

  • Non-security functional bugs, which belong in the public issue tracker

    Sorona

  • Performance and tuning problems rather than security problems: the brief lists "You need help tuning ClickHouse components for security" under when not to report a vulnerability

    Sorona

  • The standard Bugcrowd VRT out-of-scope categories: self-XSS, missing security headers, absent rate limiting and the rest

    Sorona

  • Unsupported and end-of-life ClickHouse versions, which is the majority of released branches

    Sorona

Recent changes

Reward and scope changes across every ClickHouse program, newest first.

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About this page

This page gathers every public program listed under clickhouse.com: platform programs, self-hosted policies and security.txt contacts. Each program's own policy decides what is in scope and what it pays; check it before you test.

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