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IETF

Vulnerability disclosure program on security.txt ietf.org

Accepting reports security.txt
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Top reward
No cash rewards
Top severity paid
Not published
Assets in scope
7
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]
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 The IETF does not pay “bug bounties” for reported vulnerabilities.

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

Scope

7 assets you may test, 2 excluded.

Domains 5

  • httpwg.org
  • iab.org
  • ietf.org
  • irtf.org
  • rfc-editor.org

Products and areas 2

  • Internet-Drafts (I-Ds)
  • RFCs
Out of scope (2)
  • Implementation or configuration vulnerabilities in products, open source projects, or services that may implement these documents
  • infrastructure and services that support the IETF, IRTF and IAB (such as those associated with the ietf.org, iab.org, irtf.org and rfc-editor.org domains)

Rules

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

While testing

  • Encrypted messages using the PGP key ( local | key-server ) with a fingerprint of 5674 EB6C DC18 5E2A 3D7A 56E5 AB78 AE3D 1772 9268 can be sent to < [email protected] >
  • For anything sent to a WG list, also consider sending a CC: to the general reporting alias, < [email protected] >

Not accepted

  • Implementation or configuration vulnerabilities in products, open source projects, or services that may implement these documents
  • Vulnerabilities found in working group Internet-Drafts or individual submission documents that have expired, or were fixed in subsequent versions
  • published RFCs that are marked historic

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 2 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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