Xen Project bug bounty programs
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Xen Project runs two public programs: a Sorona bug bounty paying up to $1,500 and a self-hosted disclosure program with no cash rewards.
- Top reward
- $1,500
- Sorona
- Programs
- 2
- 1 pays cash
- Targets in scope
- 18
- 4 types, deduplicated
- Last change
- None yet
- Tracked since Nov 2026
Where to report
2 programs, side by side. Report where the affected target is in scope; when two programs cover it, pick the one that pays more.
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Xen Project Hypervisor
Sorona · Pays the most of the 2 programs: up to $1,500.
| Program | Critical | High | Medium | Low | Top reward | Safe harbor | KYC | First response | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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Xen Project Hypervisor
Sorona · Bug bounty |
– | – | – | $100 (highest) | $1,500 | Partial | – | – | Open |
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Xen Project
Self-hosted · Disclosure only |
– | – | – | – | No cash | None | – | – | Open |
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- Critical
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- High
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- Medium
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- Low
- $100 (highest)
- Safe harbor
- Partial
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- Safe harbor
- None
Amounts are the top reward per severity in the currency each program pays. Green marks the highest per severity. First response is the platform's measured average when it publishes one, else what the policy promises.
What is in scope
18 targets across all 2 programs, each listed once with the programs that cover it. 5 excluded.
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http://xenbits.xen.org/gitweb?p=xen.git%3Ba%3Dblob%3Bf%3DSUPPORT.md
Source code No bounty
Covered by Self-hosted
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Architecture-specific code for both x86 and Arm, including the Arm SMMU and interrupt controller paths
Products and areas
Covered by Sorona
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Device passthrough: the IOMMU code, PCI passthrough, MSI handling and interrupt remapping
Products and areas
Covered by Sorona
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Grant tables and event channels, the two shared interfaces every guest is designed to touch
Products and areas
Covered by Sorona
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HVM handling in full, including the x86 instruction emulator, viridian enlightenments and nested virtualisation
Products and areas
Covered by Sorona
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Memory management across p2m and m2p tables, shadow and hardware-assisted paging, and page reference counting
Products and areas
Covered by Sorona
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PV and PVH guest handling, including the PV shim used to run PV guests under an HVM container
Products and areas
Covered by Sorona
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The boot path and dom0 construction, plus the hypervisor's own build-time configuration options
Products and areas
Covered by Sorona
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The console, debugging and tracing interfaces reachable from a guest or from dom0
Products and areas
Covered by Sorona
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The hypervisor core: domain lifecycle, scheduling, and the hypercall interface together with the argument validation applied on every call
Products and areas
Covered by Sorona
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The toolstack, covering xl and libxl, libxc and the interface Xen presents to a device model process
Products and areas
Covered by Sorona
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The Xen Security Problem Response Process accepts security problems in Xen Project software reported to the security team address, and carves out no component of the hypervisor. Everything below sits inside that
Products and areas
Covered by Sorona
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xenstore in full, including its transaction handling and the permission model over its nodes
Products and areas
Covered by Sorona
No target matches. Try part of a host name, such as the company name.
Out of scope 5
Don't test these. A program can exclude a host another program covers; the program you report to decides.
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Configuration that deliberately removes isolation, for example assigning a device without an IOMMU behind it
Sorona
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Defects in QEMU's device model, which the QEMU project handles under its own process, unless Xen's own use of it is what exposes the flaw
Sorona
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Downstream distributions of Xen such as XCP-ng or Citrix Hypervisor where the defect sits in the distributor's own code
Sorona
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Guest kernel or dom0 kernel defects, which belong to the relevant kernel's security process
Sorona
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Issues already covered by a published XSA
Sorona
Recent changes
Reward and scope changes across every Xen Project program, newest first.
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About this page
This page gathers every public program listed under xenproject.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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