Zeek bug bounty programs
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Zeek 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
- 7
- 2 types
- Last change
- None yet
- Tracked since Nov 2026
Where to report
The one public program Zeek runs.
| Program | Critical | High | Medium | Low | Top reward | Safe harbor | KYC | First response | Status |
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Zeek
Sorona · Bug bounty |
– | – | – | $100 | $1,500 | Partial | – | – | Open |
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- Critical
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- High
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- Medium
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- Low
- $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
7 targets. 6 excluded.
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https://zeek.org
Web
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File analysis and extraction under file_analysis in full, including the MIME and hash pipelines that reassemble transferred content
Products and areas
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The Broker communication library and the whole cluster control plane between manager, proxies, loggers and workers, where sensor nodes trust each other
Products and areas
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The entire analyser corpus under src/analyzer/protocol, plus the SPICY-generated analysers, all of which parse untrusted wire data straight off the tap
Products and areas
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The input framework and every log writer, where attacker-influenced field values reach an output serialiser and then a downstream SIEM
Products and areas
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The Zeek scripting language end to end: the interpreter, its type system, and the script-driven memory management behind it
Products and areas
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Zeek takes security reports at [email protected] under a documented security release process with a bounded embargo. The covered object is the Zeek tree in full, and no boundary narrower than that is drawn
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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Anything not merged upstream, and anything reverted within the first month after it lands
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Corelight's commercial sensor software, which embeds Zeek but is a separate product
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Detection-logic gaps in community scripts rather than defects in the engine itself
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One-liner non-exploitable crash fixes, which the reward rules place below the bar
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Patches younger than one month or older than twelve, which the reward age window excludes at both ends
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Zeek package-manager packages authored by third parties, which are not this tree
Recent changes
Reward and scope changes across every Zeek 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 Zeek products, from the NVD.
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CVE-2026-60108 High
Zeek before 8.0.9 contains an uncontrolled memory consumption vulnerability in the FTP analyzer that allows unauthenticated remote attackers to cause process termination by sending a crafted FTP control session negotiating AUTH GSSAPI followed by a large ADAT control line. Attackers can exploit the NVT_Analyzer component's lack of a maximum line length check, causing it to continuously double its
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CVE-2026-60109 High
Zeek before 8.0.9 contains a null pointer dereference vulnerability in its Kerberos protocol analyzer that allows unauthenticated remote attackers to crash the sensor by sending a crafted KRB_ERROR message with error-code 25 (KDC_ERR_PREAUTH_REQUIRED) containing a PA-DATA element with padata-type 2, 3, 11, or 19. Attackers can exploit a parser and analyzer state mismatch where proc_padata() derefe
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CVE-2021-41732 High
An issue was discovered in zeek version 4.1.0. There is a HTTP request splitting vulnerability that will invalidate any ZEEK HTTP based security analysis. NOTE: the vendor's position is that the observed behavior is intended
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CVE-2019-12175 High
In Zeek Network Security Monitor (formerly known as Bro) before 2.6.2, a NULL pointer dereference in the Kerberos (aka KRB) protocol parser leads to DoS because a case-type index is mishandled.
About this page
This page gathers every public program listed under zeek.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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