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UK Government VDP

By GOV.UK Vulnerability disclosure program on Self-hosted gov.uk

Accepting reports government
Top reward
No cash rewards
Top severity paid
Not published
Assets in scope
1
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 as the policy says
The policy page explains how.
Replies within 5 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.

Pays cash
No You will not be paid a reward for reporting a vulnerability (known as a ‘bug bounty’).
Response
Within 5 days You’ll get confirmation that we have received your report within 5 working days.

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

Scope

1 asset you may test.

Wildcard domains 1

  • gov.uk domain or subdomain

Rules

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

While testing

  • break the law
  • access unnecessary or excessive amounts of data
  • modify data
  • use high-intensity invasive or destructive scanning tools to find vulnerabilities
  • try a denial of service - for example overwhelming a service on GOV.UK with a high volume of requests
  • disrupt GOV.UK’s services or systems
  • tell other people about the vulnerability you have found until we have disclosed it
  • social engineer, phish or physically attack our staff or infrastructure
  • demand money to disclose a vulnerability
  • Only submit reports about exploitable vulnerabilities through HackerOne.

Not accepted

  • a non-exploitable vulnerability
  • something you think could be improved - for example, missing security headers
  • TLS configuration weaknesses - for example weak cipher suite support or the presence of TLS1.0 support

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.

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