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Go bug bounty programs

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Go runs one public program: a Sorona bug bounty paying up to $7,500.

Top reward
$7,500
Sorona
Programs
1
1 pays cash
Targets in scope
9
2 types
Last change
None yet
Tracked since Nov 2026

Where to report

The one public program Go runs.

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

9 targets. 6 excluded.

  • https://go.dev

    Web

  • Cryptographic weaknesses such as practical key recovery, constant-time failures, or signature and certificate-validation bypass in crypto/tls and crypto/x509

    Products and areas

  • Defects in the Go toolchain itself: the gc compiler, the linker and assembler, the go command, and go vet

    Products and areas

  • Leaked credentials, sensitive write-access keys, or insecure configuration in Go's own repositories, which the OSS VRP treats as a standing top priority

    Products and areas

  • Parser and resource-handling flaws reachable through importable packages: algorithmic-complexity or decompression-bomb denial of service, stack exhaustion from recursive parsing, XSS in html/template, and argument or PATH injection via os/exec

    Products and areas

  • Path-traversal and filepath-handling flaws, including Windows-specific behavior in path/filepath

    Products and areas

  • Security bugs in the Go standard library that break a documented security property, spanning crypto/*, encoding/*, net/http, path/filepath, os/exec, syscall, archive/*, and the rest of the stdlib, reported to the Go security team

    Products and areas

  • Supply-chain exposure across Go project infrastructure: the module proxy (proxy.golang.org), the checksum database (sum.golang.org), the vulnerability database tooling (vuln.go.dev), and Go's build and release infrastructure

    Products and areas

  • Vulnerabilities in the golang.org/x/... sub-repositories that are part of the Go project (for example x/crypto, x/net, x/text, x/tools)

    Products and areas

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

Out of scope 6

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

  • Automated scanner or fuzzer output submitted without triage, a reproducer, or root-cause analysis

  • Bugs that are not actually present in a Go package (misattributed user-code issues)

  • Denial-of-service or panics with no security-relevant impact beyond a crash, and issues that only affect Go releases already fixed in the two most recent major versions

  • Findings already subsumed by an entry in the Go vulnerability database, or documented as expected behavior in Go's published vulnerability-classification decisions

  • Third-party or non-Go-project code; report those upstream first

  • Vulnerabilities in Go applications or non-importable code, including anything in package main or an installable command, which sit outside the Go vulnerability database's scope

Recent changes

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

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About this page

This page gathers every public program listed under go.dev: 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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