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Podman bug bounty programs

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Podman runs one public program: a Sorona bug bounty paying up to $1,500.

Top reward
$1,500
Sorona
Programs
1
1 pays cash
Targets in scope
17
2 types
Last change
None yet
Tracked since Nov 2026

Where to report

The one public program Podman 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

17 targets. 7 excluded.

  • https://github.com/podman-container-tools/podman

    Web

  • Checkpoint and restore through CRIU, including the checkpoint archive parser

    Products and areas

  • Configuration handling for containers.conf, storage.conf, registries.conf and policy.json, including the drop-in directories

    Products and areas

  • Container creation and the isolation it configures: namespaces, cgroups, capabilities, seccomp, SELinux labelling and the conmon boundary

    Products and areas

  • Image pull and push, registry authentication, credential storage in auth.json, signature verification and policy.json trust evaluation

    Products and areas

  • Networking through netavark and aardvark-dns, plus the legacy CNI path, port publishing and the firewall rules Podman writes

    Products and areas

  • podman build, which runs Buildah as a library, and the whole Containerfile and build-context path it drives

    Products and areas

  • podman kube play and podman kube generate, and the Kubernetes YAML they parse and act on

    Products and areas

  • podman machine: the VM lifecycle across Hyper-V, WSL and applehv, the connection to the guest and the TLS and SSH setup between host and VM

    Products and areas

  • Pods, the infra container and the shared namespaces inside a pod

    Products and areas

  • Rootless operation end to end: user namespace setup, subuid and subgid mapping, the rootlesskit and pasta or slirp4netns paths, and the storage layout under the user's home

    Products and areas

  • systemd integration: Quadlet unit generation and parsing, podman generate systemd and the auto-update path

    Products and areas

  • The podman CLI in full, across every subcommand and every flag that changes the privilege or isolation setup

    Products and areas

  • The REST API in both flavours, the libpod API and the Docker-compatible API, and the socket they are served on including the systemd-activated socket

    Products and areas

  • The shared container-libs code (containers/image, containers/storage, containers/common) as Podman executes it, which the same address accepts

    Products and areas

  • The shared Containers-projects policy asks for any vulnerability to be reported privately to the security list and rules out public disclosure. It draws no boundary narrower than the Podman tree itself

    Products and areas

  • Volume and mount handling, including bind mounts, named volumes, --mount parsing, SELinux relabelling and the resolution of paths supplied by an image

    Products and areas

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

Out of scope 7

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

  • Buildah-specific and Skopeo-specific code paths, which have their own entries here even though the security address is shared

  • Deliberate operator choices, such as running a container privileged, disabling SELinux, mounting the host root or setting a registry insecure

  • Distribution packaging and downstream patches rather than upstream Podman

  • Docker Engine and Docker Desktop, which are a different vendor's code

  • Public disclosure ahead of the coordinated release, which the policy rules out

  • Reports against unsupported old releases once a fixed version exists

  • runc, crun and the kernel primitives Podman configures, where the defect belongs upstream

Recent changes

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

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About this page

This page gathers every public program listed under podman.io: 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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