Federal Housing Finance Agency
Vulnerability disclosure program on Self-hosted fhfa.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 through their form
- bugcrowd.com/fhfa-vdp
- Full safe harbor
- Good-faith research is authorised; no legal action.
- Replies within 5 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
Conduct research with no expectation of recognition or compensation from FHFA. FHFA does not offer a bug bounty reward program.
- Response
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Within 5 days
If you share contact information, we will acknowledge receipt of your report within 5 business days.
- Safe harbor
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Full
FHFA will not recommend or pursue legal action related to your research.
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 2
- fhfa.gov
- mortgagetranslations.gov
Out of scope (2)
- systems from our vendors
- third-party applications, websites, or services that integrate with or link to or from FHFA systems
Rules
What the policy asks of you, and the bug types it won't reward, quoted from Federal Housing Finance Agency'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, 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 persistent command line access, or use the exploit to pivot to other systems.
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Provide us a minimum of 90 days to resolve the issue before requesting to publicly disclose the report.
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Do not submit a high volume of low-quality reports.
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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 FHFA users, including “phishing" messages.
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Execute or attempt to execute “Denial of Service" or “Resource Exhaustion" attacks.
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.