sorona.xyz bug bounty programs
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Sorona.xyz 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
- 14
- 2 types
- Last change
- None yet
- Tracked since Nov 2026
Where to report
The one public program sorona.xyz runs.
| Program | Critical | High | Medium | Low | Top reward | Safe harbor | KYC | First response | Status |
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step-ca
Sorona · Bug bounty |
– | – | – | $100 | $1,500 | Partial | – | – | Open |
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- $100
- 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
14 targets. 6 excluded.
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https://smallstep.com/docs/step-ca
Web
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Certificate templates, the claims a provisioner enforces and the constraints it applies to a request's subject, SANs, key usages and validity
Products and areas
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Every provisioner type: JWK, OIDC, AWS, GCP and Azure instance identity, X5C, SSHPOP, K8sSA, ACME, SCEP and Nebula
Products and areas
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Renewal and rekey, including the mutual TLS authenticated renewal endpoint where the presented certificate is the credential
Products and areas
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Revocation end to end: the revocation endpoints, the CRL, the OCSP responder and the SSH revocation list
Products and areas
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The ACME server and every challenge type it implements: http-01, dns-01, tls-alpn-01 and device-attest-01, along with account handling, order state and the authorization objects behind them
Products and areas
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The admin API, the provisioner and admin management endpoints, and registration authority mode where step-ca fronts another CA
Products and areas
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The bootstrap and trust establishment flow, including how a client first learns and pins the CA's root
Products and areas
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The CA's own key handling and every KMS integration, covering PKCS#11 modules, YubiKey and the cloud KMS backends
Products and areas
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The database backends storing issued certificates, provisioner state and revocation records
Products and areas
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The published policy asks for reports at [email protected] and appreciates responsible disclosure without offering a reward. It declares no boundary narrower than step-ca itself
Products and areas
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The SCEP server, its challenge handling, the enrolment and renewal operations and the PKCS#7 and PKCS#10 processing beneath them
Products and areas
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The SSH certificate authority: host and user certificate issuance, principal handling, extensions, critical options and the SSH-specific provisioner paths
Products and areas
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The step CLI where it interacts with the CA, and the ACME and SCEP client behaviour the project ships
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.
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A provisioner an operator configured with deliberately loose constraints
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Hardware security modules and cloud KMS backends themselves, which belong to their vendors
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Local key material on a machine an attacker already controls
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The applications and operating systems that decide whether to trust the CA's root, which is a deployment decision
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The DNS and HTTP infrastructure a challenge is validated against, unless step-ca's validation of it is what fails
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Third-party ACME and SCEP clients
Recent changes
Reward and scope changes across every sorona.xyz 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 sorona.xyz products, from the NVD.
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CVE-2026-40097 Low
Step CA is an online certificate authority for secure, automated certificate management for DevOps. From 0.24.0 to before 0.30.0-rc3, an attacker can trigger an index out-of-bounds panic in Step CA by sending a crafted attestation key (AK) certificate with an empty Extended Key Usage (EKU) extension during TPM device attestation. When processing a device-attest-01 ACME challenge using TPM attestat
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CVE-2026-30836 Critical
Step CA is an online certificate authority for secure, automated certificate management for DevOps. Versions 0.30.0-rc6 and below do not safeguard against unauthenticated certificate issuance through the SCEP UpdateReq. This issue has been fixed in version 0.30.0.
About this page
This page gathers every public program listed under smallstep.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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