District Government / Office of the Chief Technology Officer (OCTO)
Vulnerability disclosure program on Self-hosted dc.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 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.
- Response
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Within 3 days
acknowledge receipt within three business days,
- Safe harbor
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Full
Security research that complies with this policy will not result in any legal persecution of the security researcher.
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, 2 excluded.
Domains 1
- dc.gov
Products and areas 1
- District Government’s public facing, applications, and services.
Out of scope (2)
- any system other than the systems set forth in the ‘Authorized Systems, domains and services for Security Research’ section below
- third-party applications, websites, or services that integrate with or link to or from District Government systems
Rules
What the policy asks of you, and the bug types it won't reward, quoted from District Government / Office of the Chief Technology Officer (OCTO)'s policy.
While testing
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Test any system other than the systems set forth in the ‘Authorized Systems, domains and services for Security Research’ section below
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engage in physical testing of facilities or resources,
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engage in social engineering,
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send unsolicited electronic mail to District Workforce users, including “phishing” messages,
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execute or attempt to execute “Denial of Service” or “Resource Exhaustion” attacks,
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introduce malicious software,
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cease testing and notify OCTO immediately upon discovery of a vulnerability,
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purge any stored District Government’s 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.