- Top reward
- Not published
- Top severity paid
- Not published
- Assets in scope
- 5
- Public CVEs
- 0
- Last change
- No changes yet
At a glance
What to know before you start testing.
- Pays cash
- Amounts are not published; ask before you invest time.
- Report by email
- [email protected]
- Full safe harbor
- Good-faith research is authorised; no legal action.
- Paid by PayPal
- No identity requirement stated.
- Publish after a fix
- Coordinate the timing with the company.
Rewards
What the company's own policy page says it pays.
The policy page has no reward table. Here is what it says, in its own words.
- Pays cash
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Yes
Once the report is reviewed and the Bug Bounty award is allocated, the award is paid using PayPal.
- Safe harbor
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Full
will not be subject to legal action for their research.
Summarised with AI from the company's policy, read 12 Nov 2026, and checked word for word against it. Read the original
Scope
5 assets you may test, 5 excluded.
Domains 2
- official website (pubnub.com)
- pubnub.com
Source code 1
- Official SDKs and Client Libraries
Products and areas 2
- Admin Dashboard
- PubNub Platform and API Infrastructure, Real-time Messaging Infrastructure
Out of scope (5)
- Demo Applications
- Example Code Repositories
- Infrastructure Provider Systems (e.g., AWS, Google Cloud)
- Test Environments and Sandbox Systems
- Third-party Applications (The PubNub Bounty program does not extend to third-party services.)
Rules
What the policy asks of you, and the bug types it won't reward, quoted from PubNub's policy.
While testing
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Avoid automated scanning tools
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Do not access or modify customer data
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Report vulnerabilities promptly
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Maintain confidentiality until resolved
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Disclose AI usage.
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Manually verify all findings.
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Avoid fabricated content.
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Accept full accountability.
Not accepted
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Misconfigurations in Test Environments
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Social Engineering Attacks
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Physical Security Attacks
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Denial of Service (DoS/DDoS) Attacks
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Rate Limiting Issues
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Security Headers Missing
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Self-XSS
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Clickjacking on Non-sensitive Pages
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Theoretical Vulnerabilities without Proof of Concept
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Generic vulnerability descriptions not specific to PubNub's implementation
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Reports generated primarily by AI/LLM tools without human verification (see AI-Assisted Submissions below)
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.