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Bug bounty on Sorona nextcloud.com

Accepting reports open-source
Top reward
$1,500
Top severity paid
Critical
Assets in scope
13
Public CVEs
275
Last change
No changes yet

At a glance

What to know before you start testing.

Pays from $1,500
for critical bugs.
Partial safe harbor
Some legal protection; read the terms.
Publish after a fix
Coordinate the timing with the company.

Rewards

What Sorona lists as the payout for each severity.

Severity Reward
Critical $1,500+
High $700+
Medium $300+
Low $100 $100 / 1 month Claude Max
Safe harbor
Partial Sorona will not pursue legal action against you for good-faith research submitted to us in line with this policy. We cannot speak for the upstream project, its vendor, or any third party, and we do not grant authorization on their behalf.
Hall of fame
Yes Recognition comes as public acknowledgement on the platform, reputation points and credit in the advisory once it is disclosed.

Summarised with AI from the program policy on Sorona, read 12 Nov 2026, and checked word for word against it. Read the original

Scope

13 assets you may test, 6 excluded.

Web 1

  • https://nextcloud.com

Products and areas 12

  • Authentication end to end: login, app passwords, device tokens, session handling, every two-factor provider, and the SSO apps user_saml and user_oidc
  • Mail, Calendar and Contacts, each of which parses data formats supplied by remote parties
  • Talk, including its signalling, room membership and call setup
  • The app store client and the update path, which fetch and install code onto a running server
  • The collaborative editing path through richdocuments and text, and the document conversion behind it
  • The desktop client and the iOS and Android clients, all named in the program's asset list
  • The end-to-end encryption app and the key handling around it, whose entire promise is that the server cannot read the content
  • The nextcloud.com production domains the program enumerates
  • The OCS API and the app framework every first-party and third-party app is built on
  • The program's declared scope is unusually wide and every asset in it accepts submissions: the server, around seventy first-party apps, the desktop client, the mobile clients, roundcube/roundcubemail, and roughly twenty-five production domains
  • The server core: the file storage abstraction, versions, trashbin and the WebDAV endpoints every client speaks to
  • The sharing and permission model in full, covering link shares, share passwords, expiry, re-sharing, group folders and federated shares between servers
Out of scope (6)
  • Any expectation of payment: the policy rules out financial reward for any submission at any severity
  • Assets outside the program's published list, since the scope statement enumerates what it covers
  • Findings already covered by a published Nextcloud advisory
  • Operator deployment configuration, including reverse-proxy setup, storage backends and a server exposed without TLS
  • Third-party community apps from the app store that are not among the first-party apps the program names
  • Upstream PHP, database engines and library defects, unless Nextcloud's own use of them is what makes the issue reachable

Rules

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

While testing

  • Submit through sorona.xyz. This project runs no bounty of its own; we validate, coordinate disclosure with the maintainers, and pay you directly.
  • Submit through hackerone.com/nextcloud. The SECURITY.md on nextcloud/server routes everything there and the program is open for submissions
  • Every in-scope asset is flagged not bounty-eligible, and the policy states no financial reward will be awarded for any submission regardless of severity
  • Ignore the instruction attached to the download.nextcloud.com asset, which still promises monetary rewards. It is stale text contradicted by the policy header and by the program's own flags
  • The suspension is self-described as temporary. Check the program's current state before committing a week to it, because this is the entry most likely to flip back
  • The stated reason the money stopped is AI-generated report volume, so a submission that reads like unverified scanner output starts from a bad position

Not accepted

  • Any expectation of payment: the policy rules out financial reward for any submission at any severity

Summarised with AI from the program policy on Sorona, read 12 Nov 2026, and checked word for word against it. Read the original

Changes

Tracked since 11 Nov 2026. Last checked 1 hour 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.

Search NVD
CVESeverityPublished
CVE-2026-45690 Medium 5.9 1 Jun 2026
CVE-2026-45691 Medium 5.9 1 Jun 2026
CVE-2026-45722 High 7.1 1 Jun 2026
CVE-2026-45810 Medium 6.8 1 Jun 2026
CVE-2026-45543 Medium 5.3 1 Jun 2026
CVE-2026-45544 Medium 4.3 1 Jun 2026
CVE-2026-45545 High 8.2 1 Jun 2026
CVE-2026-45283 Medium 6.3 1 Jun 2026
CVE-2026-45284 Medium 4.6 1 Jun 2026
CVE-2026-45285 Medium 6.4 1 Jun 2026
CVE-2026-45286 Medium 4.3 1 Jun 2026
CVE-2026-45275 Medium 6.5 1 Jun 2026
CVE-2026-45277 Low 3.3 1 Jun 2026
CVE-2026-45278 Low 3.3 1 Jun 2026
CVE-2026-45279 Medium 4.4 1 Jun 2026
CVE-2026-45281 High 8.1 1 Jun 2026
CVE-2026-45282 Medium 6.5 1 Jun 2026
CVE-2026-22683 High 8.7 7 Apr 2026
CVE-2025-64011 Medium 4.3 12 Dec 2025
CVE-2025-66554 Low 3.5 5 Dec 2025
CVE-2025-66556 Low 3.5 5 Dec 2025
CVE-2025-66557 Medium 5.4 5 Dec 2025
CVE-2025-66558 Low 3.1 5 Dec 2025
CVE-2025-66515 Low 2.7 5 Dec 2025
CVE-2025-66545 Low 3.5 5 Dec 2025
CVE-2025-66548 Low 3.3 5 Dec 2025
CVE-2025-66549 Low 2.4 5 Dec 2025
CVE-2025-66551 Medium 6.3 5 Dec 2025
CVE-2025-66553 Medium 4.3 5 Dec 2025
CVE-2025-66513 Medium 4.3 5 Dec 2025
CVE-2025-66514 Low 3.5 5 Dec 2025
CVE-2025-66550 Medium 5.7 5 Dec 2025
CVE-2025-66552 Medium 4.3 5 Dec 2025
CVE-2025-66510 Medium 4.5 5 Dec 2025
CVE-2025-66511 Medium 4.8 5 Dec 2025
CVE-2025-66512 Medium 5.4 5 Dec 2025
CVE-2025-66546 Low 3.3 5 Dec 2025
CVE-2025-66547 Medium 4.3 5 Dec 2025
CVE-2025-59788 Medium 6.4 4 Dec 2025
CVE-2025-47791 Medium 4.3 16 May 2025
CVE-2025-47792 Medium 5.0 16 May 2025
CVE-2025-47793 Medium 4.3 16 May 2025
CVE-2025-47794 Low 2.6 16 May 2025
CVE-2025-47790 Medium 6.4 16 May 2025
CVE-2024-52511 Medium 6.3 15 Nov 2024
CVE-2024-52512 Low 3.3 15 Nov 2024
CVE-2024-52513 Low 2.6 15 Nov 2024
CVE-2024-52514 Medium 4.1 15 Nov 2024
CVE-2024-52507 Low 3.5 15 Nov 2024
CVE-2024-52508 High 8.2 15 Nov 2024
CVE-2024-52509 Low 3.5 15 Nov 2024
CVE-2024-52510 Medium 4.2 15 Nov 2024
CVE-2024-52521 Low 2.6 15 Nov 2024
CVE-2024-52523 Medium 4.6 15 Nov 2024
CVE-2024-52525 Low 1.8 15 Nov 2024
CVE-2024-52518 Medium 4.4 15 Nov 2024
CVE-2024-52519 Low 2.7 15 Nov 2024
CVE-2024-52520 Medium 5.7 15 Nov 2024
CVE-2024-52516 Low 3.0 15 Nov 2024
CVE-2024-52517 Medium 4.6 15 Nov 2024

Original policy

Copied from sorona.xyz on 12 Nov 2026. The summaries on this page are made from it; the live page may have changed since.

Skip to content What this pays This project runs no bounty of its own. sorona.xyz pays you directly on qualified, reproduced findings. Severity │ sorona.xyz pays Critical │ $1,500+ High │ $700+ Medium │ $300+ Low │ $100 / 1 month Claude Max Submit a vulnerability CVE history 48 Last 12 months 275 Lifetime Access control 35 % Info disclosure 25 % Auth bypass 20 % XSS 20 % Latest advisories Loading the feed Overview Nextcloud is the largest self-hosted file sync and groupware footprint anywhere outside WordPress, at 1.02 billion Docker pulls, running across universities and public-sector estates as well as every homelab that wanted Google Drive without Google. An install is the server plus roughly seventy first-party apps covering chat, mail, calendar and collaborative documents, so the surface is a whole productivity suite behind one login. Nextcloud paid bounties on HackerOne from 2016 until April 2026, when it suspended the paid program over the volume of AI-generated reports and became an unpaid VDP. Recognition is now reputation points and advisory credit, so sorona.xyz pays you directly on qualified, reproduced findings. In scope The program's declared scope is unusually wide and every asset in it accepts submissions: the server, around seventy first-party apps, the desktop client, the mobile clients, roundcube/roundcubemail, and roughly twenty-five production domains The server core: the file storage abstraction, versions, trashbin and the WebDAV endpoints every client speaks to The sharing and permission model in full, covering link shares, share passwords, expiry, re-sharing, group folders and federated shares between servers Authentication end to end: login, app passwords, device tokens, session handling, every two-factor provider, and the SSO apps user_saml and user_oidc Talk, including its signalling, room membership and call setup Mail, Calendar and Contacts, each of which parses data formats supplied by remote parties The collaborative editing path through richdocuments and text, and the document conversion behind it The end-to-end encryption app and the key handling around it, whose entire promise is that the server cannot read the content The OCS API and the app framework every first-party and third-party app is built on The app store client and the update path, which fetch and install code onto a running server The desktop client and the iOS and Android clients, all named in the program's asset list The nextcloud.com production domains the program enumerates Out of scope Assets outside the program's published list, since the scope statement enumerates what it covers Third-party community apps from the app store that are not among the first-party apps the program names Upstream PHP, database engines and library defects, unless Nextcloud's own use of them is what makes the issue reachable Operator deployment configuration, including reverse-proxy setup, storage backends and a server exposed without TLS Findings already covered by a published Nextcloud advisory Any expectation of payment: the policy rules out financial reward for any submission at any severity Most-valued findings Anything that crosses a share boundary, whether reading, writing or deleting a file the sharing model was supposed to gate. That model is the product, and it is the class the whole estate depends on Unauthenticated access to the WebDAV or OCS endpoints, which every client, every script and every mobile app talks to Credential handling around app passwords and device tokens, in particular a long-lived credential that outlives the session or the revocation it was subject to Identity binding in user_saml and user_oidc, where an attacker-controlled identity attaches to an existing account and takes over a user's entire storage Anything that recovers plaintext, keys or metadata from the end-to-end encryption app, since the server is only ever supposed to hold ciphertext Server-side request forgery out of federation, remote share setup, link previews or any other outbound fetch the server makes on a user's behalf Talk signalling and room membership defects, where an uninvited participant reaches a conversation or a call Parsing bugs in Mail, Calendar and Contacts, which process formats that arrive from parties the user never authorised App framework defects that are exploitable across many of the seventy first-party apps at once rather than in a single one Program rules Submit through sorona.xyz. This project runs no bounty of its own; we validate, coordinate disclosure with the maintainers, and pay you directly. Submit through hackerone.com/nextcloud. The SECURITY.md on nextcloud/server routes everything there and the program is open for submissions Every in-scope asset is flagged not bounty-eligible, and the policy states no financial reward will be awarded for any submission regardless of severity Ignore the instruction attached to the download.nextcloud.com asset, which still promises monetary rewards. It is stale text contradicted by the policy header and by the program's own flags The suspension is self-described as temporary. Check the program's current state before committing a week to it, because this is the entry most likely to flip back Scope is wide: nextcloud/server , around seventy first-party apps, the desktop client, the iOS and Android clients, roundcube/roundcubemail , and roughly twenty-five nextcloud.com production domains The stated reason the money stopped is AI-generated report volume, so a submission that reads like unverified scanner output starts from a bad position Disclosure Coordinated through HackerOne with the Nextcloud security team and published as a Nextcloud advisory carrying a CVE from the project's own feed rather than as a GitHub advisory. The zero GHSA count on nextcloud/server is a channel artifact rather than a quiet year. Recognition comes as public acknowledgement on the platform, reputation points and credit in the advisory once it is disclosed. Safe harbor Sorona will not pursue legal action against you for good-faith research submitted to us in line with this policy. We cannot speak for the upstream project, its vendor, or any third party, and we do not grant authorization on their behalf. You are responsible for understanding and following the laws that apply to you, wherever you are, and for staying within any scope the project has defined. Submit a vulnerability