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.
| Program | Top reward | Safe harbor | KYC | First response | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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PingCAP
Self-hosted · Bug bounty |
$5,000 | – | – | – | Open |
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.
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pingcap.com
Domains
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tidb-cloud.com
Domains
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tidbapi.com
Domains
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tidbcloud.com
Domains
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PD
Products and areas
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TiDB
Products and areas
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TiFlash
Products and areas
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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
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CVE-2024-41434 Medium
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
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CVE-2024-35618 High
PingCAP TiDB v7.5.1 was discovered to contain a NULL pointer dereference via the component SortedRowContainer.
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CVE-2024-33809 Medium
PingCAP TiDB v7.5.1 was discovered to contain a buffer overflow vulnerability, which could lead to database crashes and denial of service attacks.
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CVE-2022-3023 Critical
Use of Externally-Controlled Format String in GitHub repository pingcap/tidb prior to 6.4.0, 6.1.3.
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CVE-2022-34969 High
PingCAP TiDB v6.1.0 was discovered to contain a NULL pointer dereference.
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CVE-2022-31011 High
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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