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CycloneDX Rust Cargo Bounty Program

Securing Open Source Ecosystem

Reward

Bounty
Hall of fame
€250
Low
€500
Medium
€3,000
High
€5,000
Critical
€10,000

Program

Avg reward
-
Max reward
-
Scopes
2

Supported languages
English

Hacktivity

Reports
1
1st response
< 1 day
Reports last 24h
-
Reports last week
-
Reports this month
-

Project

CycloneDX Rust is a project to read, write and generate CycloneDX SBOMs.

It is split into two main projects:

  • cyclonedx-bom is a Rust library to read and write CycloneDX SBOMs to and from Rust structs
  • cargo-cyclonedx is a Rust application, which generates CycloneDX SBOMs for Cargo based Rust projects (it uses cyclonedx-bom for that purpose)

This bug bounty program is paid for by the Bug Resilience Program.

Scopes

You can find our repository on GitHub

Program Rules

  • We welcome external reviews by security researchers in order to identify bugs in our components.
  • The scope of this program only applies to the software we build, not to our CI infrastructure or our git/website hosting, and any such attack is prohibited.
  • Issues must be reproducible in our setup in order to be accepted as valid.
  • We operate this bounty program on a "One Fix One Reward" basis. We consider an issue duplicated if it was previously reported through other channels, and also if it affects a common code module and it was already reported for a different component.

Precautions

  • Do not include Personally Identifiable Information (PII) in your report and redact or obfuscate any PII that is part of your PoC.

Eligibility

Every valid report that helps us improve the security of the project is welcome, however, in order to qualify for monetary rewards the following eligibility requirements must be met at a minimum:

  • Source of the issue must be in the code published and developed on https://github.com/CycloneDX/cyclonedx-rust-cargo (as opposed to a different repository in the same org, or a distribution-specific patch).
  • The vulnerability must be new and not have been reported before, here or elsewhere.
  • The vulnerability must meet the qualifying criteria as defined in the relevant section.
  • A reproducer (code and/or configuration and/or sequence of commands) must accompany the report, the issue must be clearly described, and the issue must be reproducible.
  • You must not be a maintainer of the cyclonedx-rust-cargo project.
  • Our analysis is always based on the worst impact demonstrated in your PoC
  • Only reports affecting the main branch of the project are eligible.

Rating and Responsible Disclosure

CVSS is used to rate and categorize vulnerabilities. Vulnerabilities will be publicly disclosed after sufficient time has passed and fixes have been backported where needed, if deemed necessary in coordination with mainstream Linux distributions.

Advisories will be published on the advisory page of our GitHub repository, and where deemed necessary as CVEs and on external mailing-lists like oss-security.

We handle the full disclosure process and expect submitters not to disclose any findings themselves. If requested, we will fully credit the reporters in the advisories.


Reward

Asset value CVSS
Low
CVSS
Medium
CVSS
High
CVSS
Critical
High
€500€3,000€5,000€10,000

Scopes

ScopeTypeAsset value
cyclonedx-bom application
High
Low
€500
Medium
€3,000
High
€5,000
Critical
€10,000
cargo-cyclonedx application
High
Low
€500
Medium
€3,000
High
€5,000
Critical
€10,000

Vulnerability types

Qualifying vulnerabilities

  • Remote code execution
  • Remote denial of service
  • Local and unprivileged denial of service
  • Privilege escalation
  • Memory safety issues (e.g., buffer overflows, use-after-free)
  • Sandbox or security boundary bypass
  • Arbitrary file read/write operations
  • Code injection vulnerabilities
  • Insecure deserialization
  • Cryptographic implementation flaws (e.g., improper key management, insecure cryptographic algorithms)
  • Integrity check bypass (e.g., tampering with generated SBOMs)
  • Dependency resolution vulnerabilities (e.g., dependency confusion attacks)
  • Exposure of sensitive information in logs
  • Compromise of signed SBOMs (e.g., signature verification failures)
  • Manipulation of SBOM content leading to incorrect or incomplete data
  • Misconfiguration vulnerabilities (e.g., insecure default settings)
  • Insecure handling of command-line arguments and environment variables

Non-qualifying vulnerabilities

  • Everything not in the qualifying vulnerabilities list is not accepted by default, and might be considered solely at the discretion of the maintainers
  • Report on a purely hypothetical vulnerability containing no reproducible proof of concept
  • Issues only found in outdated versions of our software (i.e. not vulnerable on the HEAD of the main branch)
  • Issues found in external dependencies, including cryptographic backend libraries
  • Issues found by oss-fuzz or other upstream CI systems

Hunters collaboration

When submitting new report, you can add up to 5 collaborators, and define the reward split ratio.

For more information, see help center.
Note: For reports that have already been rewarded, it is not possible to redistribute the rewards.