The company’s putting its money where its mouth is.
, but it’s almost impossible to check over all the code a project uses. Incentivizing the community to check through dependencies and first-party code helps Google cast a wider net., payouts from the Open Source Software Vulnerability Rewards Program will depend on the severity of the bug, as well as the importance of the project it was found in .
“Researchers can now be rewarded for finding bugs that could potentially impact the entire open source ecosystem.” Google also says that it doesn’t want people poking around at third-party services or platforms it uses for its open-source projects. If you find an issue with how its GitHub repository is configured, that’s fine; if you find an issue with GitHub’s login system, that’s not covered.
For researchers who aren’t motivated by money, Google offers to donate their rewards to a charity picked by the researcher — the company even says it’ll double those donations. Obviously, this isn’t Google’s first crack at a bug bounty — it had some form of vulnerability reward program for
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