Australian Bureau of Statistics
Vulnerability disclosure program on security.txt abs.gov.au
- 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
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No
We will not compensate you for finding potential or confirmed vulnerabilities.
- Response
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Within 5 days
respond to your report within 5 business days
- Safe harbor
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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
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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
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This policy does not authorise individuals or groups to undertake hacking or penetration testing against ABS ICT systems.
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If you report a vulnerability under this policy, you must keep it confidential.
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Do not make your research public until we have finished investigating and fixed or mitigated the vulnerability.
Not accepted
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clickjacking
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social engineering or phishing
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weak or insecure SSL ciphers and certificates
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denial of service (DoS or DDoS) attacks
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posting, transmitting, uploading, linking to, or sending any malware
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physical attacks
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attempts to modify or destroy data
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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.
No CVEs matched yet. We match NVD records by vendor name, so products sold under another name can be missing.