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Australian Bureau of Statistics

Vulnerability disclosure program on security.txt abs.gov.au

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Top reward
No cash rewards
Top severity paid
Not published
Assets in scope
2
Public CVEs
0
Last change
No changes yet

At a glance

What to know before you start testing.

No cash rewards
A disclosure program: you report for credit, not money.
Partial safe harbor
Some legal protection; read the terms.
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.

This program does not pay cash rewards.

Pays cash
No We will not compensate you for finding potential or confirmed vulnerabilities.
Response
Within 5 days respond to your report within 5 business days
Safe harbor
Partial If you have not exploited the vulnerability or prematurely disclosed its possible existence, ABS will not take any legal action against you.
Hall of fame
Yes with your consent credit you as the person who discovered the vulnerability

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

Scope

2 assets you may test, 8 excluded.

Domains 1

  • abs.gov.au

Products and areas 1

  • any product or service operated by the ABS to which you have lawful access
Out of scope (8)
  • attempts to extract or exfiltrate sensitive data
  • attempts to modify or destroy data
  • clickjacking
  • denial of service (DoS or DDoS) attacks
  • physical attacks
  • posting, transmitting, uploading, linking to, or sending any malware
  • social engineering or phishing
  • weak or insecure SSL ciphers and certificates

Rules

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

While testing

  • This policy does not authorise individuals or groups to undertake hacking or penetration testing against ABS ICT systems.
  • If you report a vulnerability under this policy, you must keep it confidential.
  • Do not make your research public until we have finished investigating and fixed or mitigated the vulnerability.

Not accepted

  • clickjacking
  • social engineering or phishing
  • weak or insecure SSL ciphers and certificates
  • denial of service (DoS or DDoS) attacks
  • posting, transmitting, uploading, linking to, or sending any malware
  • physical attacks
  • attempts to modify or destroy data
  • attempts to extract or exfiltrate sensitive data

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 3 hours ago.

No changes yet. When the rewards or scope move, you will see it here and in the RSS feed.

Public CVEs

Published vulnerabilities in this vendor's products, from the NVD.

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