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PingCAP bug bounty programs

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PingCAP runs one public program: a self-hosted bug bounty paying up to $5,000.

Top reward
$5,000
Self-hosted
Programs
1
1 pays cash
Targets in scope
8
2 types
Last change
None yet
Tracked since Nov 2026

Where to report

The one public program PingCAP 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

8 targets.

  • pingcap.com

    Domains

  • tidb-cloud.com

    Domains

  • tidbapi.com

    Domains

  • tidbcloud.com

    Domains

  • PD

    Products and areas

  • TiDB

    Products and areas

  • TiFlash

    Products and areas

  • TiKV

    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 PingCAP 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 PingCAP products, from the NVD.

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  • CVE-2024-41433 Critical

    PingCAP TiDB v8.1.0 was discovered to contain a buffer overflow via the component expression.ExplainExpressionList. This vulnerability allows attackers to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) via a crafted input. NOTE: PingCAP maintains that the actual reproduction of this issue did not cause the security impact of service interruption to other users. They argue that this is a complex query bug and not

  • PingCAP TiDB v8.1.0 was discovered to contain a buffer overflow via the component (*Column).GetDecimal. This allows attackers to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) via a crafted input to the 'RemoveUnnecessaryFirstRow', it will check the expression between 'Agg' and 'GroupBy', but does not check the return type. NOTE: PingCAP disputes this, arguing that reproduction did not cause the security impact

  • PingCAP TiDB v7.5.1 was discovered to contain a NULL pointer dereference via the component SortedRowContainer.

  • PingCAP TiDB v7.5.1 was discovered to contain a buffer overflow vulnerability, which could lead to database crashes and denial of service attacks.

  • CVE-2022-3023 Critical

    Use of Externally-Controlled Format String in GitHub repository pingcap/tidb prior to 6.4.0, 6.1.3.

  • PingCAP TiDB v6.1.0 was discovered to contain a NULL pointer dereference.

  • TiDB is an open-source NewSQL database that supports Hybrid Transactional and Analytical Processing (HTAP) workloads. Under certain conditions, an attacker can construct malicious authentication requests to bypass the authentication process, resulting in privilege escalation or unauthorized access. Only users using TiDB 5.3.0 are affected by this vulnerability. TiDB version 5.3.1 contains a patch

About this page

This page gathers every public program listed under pingcap.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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