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Federal Trade Commission

Vulnerability disclosure program on Self-hosted ftc.gov

Accepting reports
Top reward
No cash rewards
Top severity paid
Not published
Assets in scope
28
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/ftc-vdp
Partial safe harbor
Some legal protection; read the terms.
Replies within 3 days
As the policy promises.
No public write-ups
Keep findings private.

Rewards

What the company's own policy page says it pays.

This program does not pay cash rewards.

Pays cash
No We cannot provide “bug bounties” or rewards, and you understand and agree that the FTC will not compensate you for reporting vulnerabilities.
Response
Within 3 days If you provide us your contact information, we will acknowledge your report within 3 business days.
Safe harbor
Partial Except as authorized or required by law, we do not intend to recommend legal action against security research activities that we believe are authorized and represent a good-faith effort to follow the above policy.

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

Scope

28 assets you may test.

Domains 14

  • alertaenlinea.gov
  • consumer.gov
  • consumersentinel.gov
  • consumidor.gov
  • donotcall.gov
  • dontserveteens.gov
  • econsumer.gov
  • ftc.gov
  • hsr.gov
  • identitytheft.gov
  • militaryconsumer.gov
  • onguardonline.gov
  • robodeidentidad.gov
  • sentinel.gov

Wildcard domains 14

  • *.alertaenlinea.gov
  • *.consumer.gov
  • *.consumersentinel.gov
  • *.consumidor.gov
  • *.donotcall.gov
  • *.dontserveteens.gov
  • *.econsumer.gov
  • *.ftc.gov
  • *.hsr.gov
  • *.identitytheft.gov
  • *.militaryconsumer.gov
  • *.onguardonline.gov
  • *.robodeidentidad.gov
  • *.sentinel.gov

Rules

What the policy asks of you, and the bug types it won't reward, quoted from Federal Trade Commission's policy.

While testing

  • Network denial of service (DoS or DDoS) tests
  • Physical testing (e.g. office access, open doors, tailgating), social engineering (e.g., phishing, vishing), or any other non-technical vulnerability testing
  • Disclosure to any party (other than reporting to the FTC) of PII acquired from an FTC system
  • Research activities that would violate the rights any other individual or entity
  • You must comply with all applicable Federal, State, and local laws in connection with your security research activities or other participation in this vulnerability disclosure program.

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 6 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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