SEC
By U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Vulnerability disclosure program on Self-hosted sec.gov
- 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 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
We will do our best to acknowledge that your report has been received within 3 business days of receipt.
- 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, and we will work with you to understand and resolve the issue quickly. In addition, the SEC will not recommend or pursue legal action related to your research.
- Hall of fame
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Yes
LORs are awarded exclusively for P1-P4 rated reports that have been validated, accepted, and confirmed as fixed.
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, 3 excluded.
Domains 3
- investor.gov No bounty
- sec.gov
- usa.gov No bounty
Products and areas 1
- all internet-accessible systems or services
Out of scope (3)
- Any connected services to commercial entities or other government agencies
- systems from our vendors
- Testing third-party applications, websites, or services that integrate with or link to or from SEC systems
Rules
What the policy asks of you, and the bug types it won't reward, quoted from SEC's policy.
While testing
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Notify the SEC 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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Only use exploits to the extent necessary to confirm a vulnerability’s presence.
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Do not use an exploit to compromise or exfiltrate data, establish persistent command line access, or use the exploit to pivot to other systems.
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Provide the SEC 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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Network denial of service (DoS or DDoS) tests or other tests that impair access to or damage a system or data such as resource exhaustion attacks
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Physical testing of facilities or resources (e.g., office access, open doors, tailgating)
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Social engineering (e.g., phishing, vishing) or sending unsolicited electronic mail to SEC users, including “phishing” messages
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Introducing malicious software
Not accepted
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Reports flagged as duplicates or identified as known issues do not qualify for an LOR.
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.