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EMBL’s European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI)

Vulnerability disclosure program on security.txt ebi.ac.uk

Accepting reports security.txt
Top reward
No cash rewards
Top severity paid
Not published
Assets in scope
1
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]
Partial safe harbor
Some legal protection; read the terms.
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
No it is unfortunately not possible for us to reward you financially
Response
Within 3 days you will receive an acknowledgement reply usually within three working days of your report being received.
Safe harbor
Partial This policy is designed to be compatible with common vulnerability disclosure good practice. It does not give you permission to act in any manner that is inconsistent with the law
Hall of fame
Yes Thank you by adding your name to our Hall of Fame once we have verified and fixed the vulnerability (only with your permission).

Summarised with AI from the company's policy, read 12 Nov 2026, and checked word for word against it. Read the original

Scope

1 asset you may test.

Domains 1

  • ebi.ac.uk

Rules

What the policy asks of you, and the bug types it won't reward, quoted from EMBL’s European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI)'s policy.

While testing

  • Break any applicable law or regulations
  • Access unnecessary, excessive or significant amounts of data
  • Modify data in EMBL-EBI’s systems or services
  • Use high-intensity invasive or destructive scanning tools to find vulnerabilities
  • Disrupt EMBL-EBI’s services or systems
  • Socially engineer, ‘phish’ or physically attack EMBL-EBI staff or infrastructure
  • Demand financial compensation in order to disclose any vulnerabilities
  • Share or distribute data retrieved from the systems or services.
  • Always comply with data protection rules and must not violate the privacy of the EMBL-EBI’s users, staff, contractors, services or systems

Not accepted

  • Attempt or report any form of denial of service (e.g. overwhelming a service with a high volume of requests)

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.

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Public CVEs

Published vulnerabilities in this vendor's products, from the NVD.

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