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Ministry of Social Development

Vulnerability disclosure program on Self-hosted msd.govt.nz

Accepting reports Full safe harbor
Top reward
No cash rewards
Top severity paid
Not published
Assets in scope
4
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 7 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
No Note: The Ministry does not offer financial rewards or bug bounties.
Response
Within 7 days responding to your report within seven days
Safe harbor
Full not taking legal action against you if you follow these guidelines and cause no harm
Hall of fame
Yes recognising your contribution with a letter of acknowledgement if you are the first to report the issue and it results in a code or configuration change.

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

Scope

4 assets you may test.

Domains 4

  • msd.govt.nz
  • studylink.govt.nz
  • supergold.govt.nz
  • workandincome.govt.nz

Rules

What the policy asks of you, and the bug types it won't reward, quoted from Ministry of Social Development's policy. "We" in these lines means the program, not this site.

While testing

  • Delete and do not share any confidential or personal information you may have accessed.
  • Keep all information about the issue confidential between you and the Ministry until we’ve resolved it.
  • Please do not try actions that can cause harm:
  • Denial of Service (DoS) attacks
  • slowing down systems for users
  • disrupting production systems
  • accessing data or information that does not belong to you.
  • destroying or corrupting data or information that does not belong to you
  • sharing any personal information you obtained.

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 12 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.

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