Commodity Futures Trading Commission
Vulnerability disclosure program on Self-hosted cftc.gov
- 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.
- 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.
This program does not pay cash rewards.
- Pays cash
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No
CFTC does not maintain a bug bounty program and will not endorse an organization that reports vulnerabilities to the Commission. Reporters will not receive payment for submitting vulnerabilities and, by submitting, reporters waive any claims to compensation.
- Response
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Within 5 days
For reports submitted in compliance with this policy, CFTC will acknowledge receipt within five business days.
- Safe harbor
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Full
The Commission will not recommend or pursue legal action related to any security research conducted in compliance with this policy.
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.
Domains 2
- cftc.gov
- whistleblower.gov
Rules
What the policy asks of you, and the bug types it won't reward, quoted from Commodity Futures Trading Commission's policy.
While testing
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Only perform automated scanning (i.e., Nessus, WebInspect, or other tools that consume bandwidth) during evening and nighttime hours (9:00 PM to 6:00 AM EST) to prevent degradation of services to the CFTC.
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Only use exploits to the extent necessary to confirm a vulnerability’s presence.
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Make every effort to avoid degradation of user experience, disruption to production information systems, and destruction or manipulation of information.
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Maintain a log of commands executed and activities performed during testing that includes date and time to assist with incident response triaging, if needed.
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Access an information system through determined or bypassed credentials.
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Perform denial of service attacks on any CFTC resources.
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Alter or delete files on any CFTC information systems or data.
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Store penetration test files or programs on any of CFTC information systems.
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Contact CFTC employees or affiliated companies or individuals based on OSINT gathering activities.
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Brute force passwords or other user credentials.
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.
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.