Freedom of the Press Foundation bug bounty programs
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Freedom of the Press Foundation runs one public program: a Bugcrowd bug bounty paying up to $2,500.
- Top reward
- $2,500
- Bugcrowd
- Programs
- 1
- 1 pays cash
- Targets in scope
- 3
- 1 type
- Last change
- None yet
- Tracked since Nov 2026
Where to report
The one public program Freedom of the Press Foundation runs.
| Program | Critical | High | Medium | Low | Top reward | Safe harbor | KYC | First response | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
SecureDrop
Bugcrowd · Bug bounty |
$2,500 | $1,500 | $750 | $200 | $2,500 | Partial | – | – | Open |
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- Critical
- $2,500
- High
- $1,500
- Medium
- $750
- Low
- $200
- Safe harbor
- Partial
Amounts are the top reward per severity in the currency each program pays. First response is the platform's measured average when it publishes one, else what the policy promises.
What is in scope
3 targets.
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https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop
Products and areas
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https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-client
Products and areas
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https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop-workstation
Products and areas
No target matches. Try part of a host name, such as the company name.
Recent changes
Reward and scope changes across every Freedom of the Press Foundation program, newest first.
No changes recorded yet. New targets and reward moves show up here and in the RSS feed.
Recent CVEs
Published vulnerabilities in Freedom of the Press Foundation products, from the NVD.
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CVE-2026-35465 High
SecureDrop Client is a desktop app for journalists to securely communicate with sources and handle submissions on the SecureDrop Workstation. In versions 0.17.4 and below, a compromised SecureDrop Server can achieve code execution on the Client's virtual machine (sd-app) by exploiting improper filename validation in gzip archive extraction, which permits absolute paths and enables overwriting crit
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CVE-2023-39342 Low
Dangerzone is software for converting potentially dangerous PDFs, office documents, or images to safe PDFs. The Dangerzone CLI (`dangerzone-cli` command) logs output from the container where the file sanitization takes place, to the user's terminal. Prior to version 0.4.2, if the container is compromised and can return attacker-controlled strings, then the attacker may be able to spoof messages in
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CVE-2022-4563 High
A vulnerability was found in Freedom of the Press SecureDrop. It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the file gpg-agent.conf. The manipulation leads to symlink following. Local access is required to approach this attack. The name of the patch is b0526a06f8ca713cce74b63e00d3730618d89691. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue. The identi
About this page
This page gathers every public program listed under freedom.press: 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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