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Bug bounty on Self-hosted ably.com

Accepting reports Full safe harbor
Top reward
$5,000
Top severity paid
Critical
Assets in scope
13
Public CVEs
0
Last change
No changes yet

At a glance

What to know before you start testing.

Pays up to $5,000
for critical bugs, from $150.
Report by email
[email protected]
Full safe harbor
Good-faith research is authorised; no legal action.
Replies within 5 days
As the policy promises.
Publish after a fix
Coordinate the timing with the company.

Rewards

What the company's own policy page says it pays.

Severity Reward
Critical $5,000
High $1,500
Medium $500
Low $150
Top reward
$5,000 Critical: $5000
Lowest reward
$150 Low: $150
Response
Within 5 days We aim to acknowledge new reports within 5 working days.
Safe harbor
Full Any activities conducted in a manner consistent with this policy will be considered authorized conduct and we will not initiate legal action against you.
Hall of fame
Yes We really appreciate the work that our researchers do and love recognizing this on our acknowledgements page .

Summarised with AI from the company's policy, read 12 Nov 2026, and checked word for word against it. Read the original

Scope

13 assets you may test, 5 excluded.

Domains 5

  • ably-realtime.com
  • main.realtime.ably.net
  • realtime.ably.io
  • realtime.ably.net
  • rest.ably.io

Wildcard domains 5

  • *.ably.com
  • *.ably-realtime.com
  • *-realtime.ably.io
  • *.realtime.ably.net
  • *-rest.ably.io

APIs 2

  • Ably service endpoints served from customer domains via CNAME
  • control.ably.net

Web 1

  • https://ably.com
Out of scope (5)
  • support.ably.com
  • Ably's client SDKs and reference or sample code
  • applications or services that are not customer facing
  • reports from the ably-cli
  • reports from the ably-server

Rules

What the policy asks of you, and the bug types it won't reward, quoted from Ably's policy. "We" in these lines means the program, not this site.

While testing

  • Make a good faith effort to avoid privacy violations, destruction of data, and interruption or degradation of service.
  • Only interact with accounts you own or with explicit permission of the account holder.
  • Targeted brute force attacks are NOT permitted to discover incorrect or missing rate limits such as checking the rate limit on a password input.
  • We ask that any details of a reported vulnerability remain confidential to best protect our users until the vulnerability is verified, fixed and retested.
  • Please provide us a reasonable amount of time to resolve the issue before any disclosure to the public or a third party.
  • Disclose the vulnerability report directly and exclusively to us.
  • Low-quality reports, such as those which only contain automated output, will be rejected. In addition, reports generated solely by AI are not acceptable.

Not accepted

  • Reports regarding username enumeration
  • Bugs requiring exceedingly unlikely user interaction
  • Reports of software usage disclosure or software version disclosure
  • Information disclosure about internal systems that does not represent a specific security vulnerability of confidentiality, integrity or availability
  • Reporting vulnerabilities that are deemed as accepted risks
  • Bugs that don't affect the latest version of modern browsers, or browser extensions
  • Attacks requiring MITM or physical access to a user's device
  • Previously known vulnerable libraries without a working proof of concept (PoC)
  • Content spoofing and text injection issues without showing an attack vector/without being able to modify HTML/CSS
  • Sender Policy Framework (SPF), DKIM and DMARC configuration suggestions
  • Disclosure of known public files or directories (eg robots.txt)
  • Banner disclosure on common/public services without a PoC
  • Security header configurations or missing headers
  • Lack of Secure/HTTPOnly flags on non-sensitive cookies
  • Abstract possibility of phishing or social engineering attacks, including open redirects and CSRFs
  • Reports relating to TLS configuration or known protocol, ciphersuite or certificate weaknesses
  • Reports relating to applications that are non-customer facing

Summarised with AI from the company's policy, read 12 Nov 2026, and checked word for word against it. Read the original

Changes

Tracked since 11 Nov 2026. Last checked 5 hours ago.

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Public CVEs

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