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VirtualBox bug bounty programs

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VirtualBox 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
15
2 types
Last change
None yet
Tracked since Nov 2026

Where to report

The one public program VirtualBox 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

15 targets. 6 excluded.

  • https://www.virtualbox.org

    Web

  • Disk image handling for VDI, VMDK, VHD and the other supported formats, plus OVF and OVA appliance import

    Products and areas

  • Oracle's reporting page is the declared channel: PGP-encrypted email to the security alert address, with fixes shipped in the quarterly Critical Patch Update and credit given in the advisory. virtualbox.org routes security findings there and away from the public tracker. Nothing narrower is declared, so the whole product is in

    Products and areas

  • Shared folders in full, on every host platform

    Products and areas

  • The 3D acceleration and graphics stack, where guest-supplied rendering commands are interpreted by host code

    Products and areas

  • The emulated network adapters, including E1000, PCnet and virtio-net, plus the user-space NAT stack behind them

    Products and areas

  • The emulated storage controllers in full, including IDE, AHCI, NVMe, LsiLogic and BusLogic

    Products and areas

  • The Guest Additions and every host channel they open: shared clipboard, drag and drop, guest properties, guest control, and the VBoxService and VBoxClient pair

    Products and areas

  • The HGCM host-guest communication manager and every service registered on it

    Products and areas

  • The host kernel drivers on Windows, macOS and Linux, including VBoxDrv and the network filter and adapter drivers

    Products and areas

  • The installer and the update mechanism on each host platform, plus the Extension Pack components where they are reachable

    Products and areas

  • The VMM core: the hardware virtualization backends, the recompiler paths and the instruction emulation behind both

    Products and areas

  • The VRDE remote display server and any other network-facing console path

    Products and areas

  • USB emulation across OHCI, EHCI and xHCI, along with the audio and graphics device implementations

    Products and areas

  • VBoxSVC and the COM and XPCOM API surface, including how a less privileged host user reaches it

    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.

  • Configuration that deliberately removes isolation, for example enabling a writable shared folder and then reporting that the guest wrote to it

  • Findings filed on the public bug tracker, which the project asks you not to use for security issues

  • Guest operating system defects rather than VirtualBox

  • Host operating system defects or CPU errata rather than VirtualBox's handling of them

  • Other Oracle products, which share the reporting address but are entirely different targets

  • Third-party front ends such as Vagrant and the various management GUIs

Recent changes

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

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About this page

This page gathers every public program listed under virtualbox.org: 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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