US Department of Justice VDP
By Department of Justice (DOJ) Vulnerability disclosure program on Self-hosted justice.gov
- Top reward
- No cash rewards
- Top severity paid
- Not published
- Assets in scope
- 3
- 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
- https://www.justice.gov/jmd/vulnerability-disclosure-policy
- 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
Acknowledging receipt of each vulnerability report within three (3) business days.
- Safe harbor
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Full
DOJ OCIO will not initiate or recommend any law enforcement or civil actions related to such activities
Summarised with AI from the company's policy, read 12 Nov 2026, and checked word for word against it. Read the original
Scope
3 assets you may test.
Domains 2
- doj.gov
- justice.gov
Products and areas 1
- all DOJ-managed systems and services that are accessible from the Internet
Rules
What the policy asks of you, and the bug types it won't reward, quoted from US Department of Justice VDP's policy.
While testing
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Notify DOJ OCIO within 72 hours of discovering any real or potential security vulnerabilities.
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Make every effort to avoid privacy violations, degradation of user experience, disruption to production systems, and destruction or manipulation of data.
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Only conduct testing activities to the extent necessary to confirm a vulnerability’s presence.
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Do not use any exploit to compromise or exfiltrate data; open, take, or delete files; establish command line access and/or persistence; or pivot to other systems.
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Do not escalate privileges or attempt to move laterally within the network.
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Do not disrupt access to DOJ services or introduce any malware in the course of testing.
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Do not publicly disclose reported vulnerabilities without prior coordination with DOJ OCIO.
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Do not submit a high volume of low-quality reports.
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Researchers may not conduct denial-of-service (DoS or DDoS) tests or other tests that impair access to or damage a system or data.
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Researchers may not conduct physical testing or social engineering, including spear phishing, of DOJ personnel or contractors.
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.
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