Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Vulnerability disclosure program on Self-hosted cfpb.gov
- Top reward
- No cash rewards
- Top severity paid
- Not published
- Assets in scope
- 27
- 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 3 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
No, this is not intended to be a “bug bounty” program.
- Response
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Within 3 days
Within 3 business days, we will acknowledge that your report has been received.
- Safe harbor
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Full
CFPB will not recommend or pursue legal action against anyone for security research activities that the CFPB concludes represents a good faith effort to follow this Policy.
- Hall of fame
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Yes
The Bureau may provide recognition to individuals and/or organizations who provide viable information that helped to remediate a security vulnerability.
Summarised with AI from the company's policy, read 12 Nov 2026, and checked word for word against it. Read the original
Scope
27 assets you may test, 2 excluded.
Domains 27
- api.cfpb.gov
- api.consumerfinance.gov
- autodiscover.cfpb.gov
- beta.cfpb.gov
- beta.consumerfinance.gov
- complaint.consumerfinance.gov
- consumerfinance.gov
- consumerfinancialprotectionbureau.gov
- data.consumerfinance.gov
- es.consumerfinance.gov
- exam.consumerfinance.gov
- extranet.cfpb.gov
- ffiec.cfpb.gov
- files.consumerfinance.gov
- inclusivity.consumerfinance.gov
- info.consumerfinance.gov
- mimm.gov
- mobile.cfpb.gov
- owa.cfpb.gov
- portal.consumerfinance.gov
- remote.cfpb.gov
- search.consumerfinance.gov
- story.consumerfinance.gov
- surveys.consumerfinance.gov
- webservices.cfpb.gov
- work.cfpb.gov
- www.consumerfinance.gov
Out of scope (2)
- Any service not expressly listed above, such as any connected services
- vulnerabilities found in systems from our vendors
Rules
What the policy asks of you, and the bug types it won't reward, quoted from Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's policy. "We" in these lines means the program, not this site.
While testing
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Notify us as soon as possible after you discover a real or potential security issue.
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Make every effort to avoid privacy violations, data or privacy breaches, degradation of user experience, disruption to production systems, and destruction or manipulation of data.
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Only use exploits to the extent necessary to confirm a vulnerability’s presence.
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Do not use an exploit to compromise or exfiltrate data, establish command line access and/or persistence, or pivot to other systems.
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Provide us a reasonable amount of time to resolve the issue before you disclose it publicly
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Do not submit a high volume of low-quality reports.
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Immediately cease testing and notify us upon discovery of a vulnerability
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Immediately cease testing and notify us upon discovery of an exposure of nonpublic data
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Immediately notify us upon discovery of any exposure or disclosure of sensitive data, including PII
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Purge any stored CFPB nonpublic data upon reporting a vulnerability
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.