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Stellar

By Stellar Development Foundation Bug bounty on Self-hosted stellar.org

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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]
No safe harbor
No promise about legal action.
Replies within 3 days
As the policy promises.
Paid by XLM
Proof of identity needed to get paid.
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 Payouts vary based on the severity and impact of the report.
Response
Within 3 days Please allow 3 business days for us to respond before sending another email

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, 2 excluded.

Domains 2

  • stellar.org
  • stellar.org web properties

Source code 2

  • core
  • SDF-maintained repositories and services

Products and areas 1

  • Stellar protocol
Out of scope (2)
  • sites hosted by third parties
  • third party applications that make use of Stellar’s API

Rules

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

While testing

  • Please allow for this process to fully complete before you publicly disclose the vulnerability.
  • Try to include as much information in your report as you can, including a description of the bug, its potential -impact, and steps for reproducing it or proof of concept

Not accepted

  • Recently disclosed 0-day vulnerabilities
  • Vulnerabilities on sites hosted by third parties unless they lead to a vulnerability on the main website
  • Vulnerabilities contingent on physical attack, social engineering, spamming, DDOS attack, etc
  • Vulnerabilities affecting outdated or unpatched browsers
  • Vulnerabilities in third party applications that make use of Stellar’s API
  • Bugs that have not been responsibly investigated and reported
  • Bugs already known to us, or already reported by someone else (reward goes to first reporter)
  • Issues that aren’t reproducible
  • Issues that we can’t reasonably be expected to do anything about

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.

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Public CVEs

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