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Ripe NCC

Bug bounty on Self-hosted ripe.net

Accepting reports
Top reward
Not published
Top severity paid
Not published
Assets in scope
11
Public CVEs
3
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]
Partial safe harbor
Some legal protection; read the terms.
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.

The policy page has no reward table. Here is what it says, in its own words.

Pays cash
Yes Bounties for valid reports
Response
Within 3 days We will strive to respond to your report within three business days with our evaluation of the report and an expected resolution date
Safe harbor
Partial The RIPE NCC reserves the right to initiate legal action against researchers for penetrating or attempting to penetrate our systems if they do not adhere to this policy.
Hall of fame
Yes After your vulnerability report is verified, you may be eligible for a reward and there is a chance your name will appear on the Intigriti leaderboard .

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

Scope

11 assets you may test, 3 excluded.

Domains 6

  • anchors.atlas.ripe.net
  • data-store.ripe.net
  • ftp.ripe.net
  • probes.atlas.ripe.net
  • ripe.net
  • www-static.ripe.net

Wildcard domains 3

  • *.anchors.atlas.ripe.net
  • *.probes.atlas.ripe.net
  • *.ripe.net

Networks 2

  • 193.0.0.160/27
  • 2001:67c:2e8:3::/64
Out of scope (3)
  • Any *.ripe.net host located outside of the in-scope IP ranges
  • Public directories (many of them are supposed to be public)
  • RIPE Meeting network (2001:67c:64::/48 and 193.0.24.0/21)

Rules

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

While testing

  • Performing actions that may negatively affect the RIPE NCC or its users (e.g. any form of Denial of Service attacks)
  • Accessing, or attempting to access, data or information that does not belong to the researcher for purposes other than performing the security test
  • Destroying or corrupting, or attempting to destroy or corrupt, data or information that does not belong to the researcher
  • Conducting any kind of physical or electronic attack on RIPE NCC personnel, property or data centres
  • Using social engineering to target any RIPE NCC employee
  • Violating any laws or breaching any agreements in order to discover vulnerabilities
  • Please do not share the issue with others until it has been resolved
  • Please do not publish anything about the resolved issue unless this has been discussed with us
  • Please delete all confidential information obtained through the vulnerability as soon as possible after reporting it, but always after consulting us to make sure that we can reproduce the issue

Not accepted

  • Missing, or not 'properly' configured SPF, DKIM or DMARC records
  • The presence of public services such as robots.txt or FTP (e.g. ftp.ripe.net )
  • The availability of DNS zone transfers
  • Reports of old software versions without a working Proof of Concept of an exploit
  • Image upload or retrieval from labs.ripe.net
  • Malicious activity originating from an IP address space in the RIPE region, but not used by the RIPE NCC.

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 6 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.

Search NVD
CVESeverityPublished
CVE-2020-16162 High 7.5 30 Jul 2020
CVE-2020-16163 Critical 9.1 30 Jul 2020
CVE-2020-16164 High 7.4 30 Jul 2020