EMBL’s European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI)
Vulnerability disclosure program on security.txt ebi.ac.uk
- 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
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No
it is unfortunately not possible for us to reward you financially
- Response
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Within 3 days
you will receive an acknowledgement reply usually within three working days of your report being received.
- Safe harbor
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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
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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
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Break any applicable law or regulations
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Access unnecessary, excessive or significant amounts of data
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Modify data in EMBL-EBI’s systems or services
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Use high-intensity invasive or destructive scanning tools to find vulnerabilities
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Disrupt EMBL-EBI’s services or systems
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Socially engineer, ‘phish’ or physically attack EMBL-EBI staff or infrastructure
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Demand financial compensation in order to disclose any vulnerabilities
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Share or distribute data retrieved from the systems or services.
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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
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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.
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.