Merit Systems Protection Board
By Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) Vulnerability disclosure program on Self-hosted mspb.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 by email
- [email protected]
- Full safe harbor
- Good-faith research is authorised; no legal action.
- 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.
- Response
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Within 3 days
Within 3 business days, we will acknowledge that your report has been received.
- Safe harbor
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Full
If you make a good faith effort to comply with this policy during your security research, we will consider your research to be authorized we will work with you to understand and resolve the issue quickly, and MSPB 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, 3 excluded.
Domains 1
- mspb.gov
Wildcard domains 1
- *.mspb.gov
Out of scope (3)
- Any other subdomain of mspb.gov and all customer applications are excluded from this policy.
- Any service not expressly listed above, such as any connected services, are excluded from scope and are not authorized for testing.
- vulnerabilities found in systems from our vendors fall outside of this policy’s scope
Rules
What the policy asks of you, and the bug types it won't reward, quoted from Merit Systems Protection Board'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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Provide us a reasonable amount of time to resolve the issue before you disclose it publicly.
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Do not submit a high volume of low-quality reports.
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Do not share sensitive information through email.
Not accepted
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User interface bugs or typos.
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Network denial of service (DoS or DDoS) tests.
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Physical testing (e.g. office access, open doors, tailgating), social engineering (e.g. phishing, vishing), or any other non-technical vulnerability testing.
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Brute Force Attacks against login interfaces.
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.