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.
| Program | Critical | High | Medium | Low | Top reward | Safe harbor | KYC | First response | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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ClickHouse
Bugcrowd · Bug bounty |
$2,500 (highest) | $1,250 (highest) | $600 (highest) | $100 (highest) | $2,500 | Full | – | – | Open |
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ClickHouse
Sorona · Bug bounty |
$2,500 | $1,250 | $600 | $100 | $2,500 | Partial | – | 5 days promised | Open |
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- Critical
- $2,500 (highest)
- High
- $1,250 (highest)
- Medium
- $600 (highest)
- Low
- $100 (highest)
- Safe harbor
- Full
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- Critical
- $2,500
- High
- $1,250
- Medium
- $600
- Low
- $100
- Safe harbor
- Partial
- First response
- 5 days promised
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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Table engines and the MergeTree storage layer, plus replication and distributed query execution across a cluster
Products and areas
Covered by Sorona
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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https://learn.clickhouse.com
Bugcrowd
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New support cases, Chat, Request new integration form
Bugcrowd
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Share feedback form
Bugcrowd
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Vulnerability scanners
Bugcrowd
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Non-security functional bugs, which belong in the public issue tracker
Sorona
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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
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The standard Bugcrowd VRT out-of-scope categories: self-XSS, missing security headers, absent rate limiting and the rest
Sorona
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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.
No changes recorded yet. New targets and reward moves show up here and in the RSS feed.
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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