The curl project runs a bug bounty program in association with HackerOne and the Internet Bug Bounty.
Start out by posting your suspected security vulnerability directly to curl's HackerOne program.
After you have reported a security issue, it has been deemed credible, and a patch and advisory has been made public, you may be eligible for a bounty from this program.
See all details at https://hackerone.com/curl
This bounty is relying on funds from sponsors. If you use curl professionally, consider help funding this! See https://opencollective.com/curl for details.
The curl projects offer monetary compensation for reported and published security vulnerabilities. The amount of money that is rewarded depends on how serious the flaw is determined to be.
We offer reward money up to a certain amount per severity. The curl security team determines the severity of each reported flaw on a case by case basis and the exact amount rewarded to the reporter is then decided.
Check out the current award amounts at https://hackerone.com/curl
Everyone and anyone who reports a security problem in a released curl version that hasn't already been reported can ask for a bounty.
Vulnerabilities in features that are off by default and documented as experimental are not eligible for a reward.
The vulnerability has to be fixed and publicly announced (by the curl project) before a bug bounty will be considered.
Bounties need to be requested within twelve months from the publication of the vulnerability.
The vulnerabilities must not have been made public before February 1st, 2019. We do not retroactively pay for old, already known, or published security problems.
This bug bounty only concerns the curl and libcurl products and thus their respective source codes - when running on existing hardware. It does not include documentation, websites, or other infrastructure.
The curl security team will be the sole arbiter if a reported flaw can be subject to a bounty or not.
The grading of each reported vulnerability that makes a reward claim will be performed by the curl security team. The grading will be based on the CVSS (Common Vulnerability Scoring System) 3.0.
The curl security team first gives the vulnerability a score, as mentioned above, and based on that level we set an amount depending on the specifics of the individual case. Other sponsors of the program might also get involved and can raise the amounts depending on the particular issue.
The bounty fund depends on sponsors. If we pay out more bounties than we add, the fund will eventually drain. If that end up happening, we will simply not be able to pay out as high bounties as we would like and hope that we can convince new sponsors to help us top up the fund again.
In the event that the individual receiving a curl bug bounty needs to pay taxes on the reward money, the responsibility lies with the receiver. The curl project or its security team never actually receive any of this money, hold the money, or pay out the money.
In cooperation with Dropbox the curl bug bounty can offer the highest levels of rewards if the issue covers one of the interest areas of theirs - and only if the bug is graded high or critical. A non-exhaustive list of vulnerabilities Dropbox is interested in are:
Dropbox would generally hand out rewards for critical vulnerabilities ranging from 12k-32k USD where RCE is on the upper end of the spectrum.
URL parsing vulnerabilities with demonstrable security impact might include incorrectly determining the authority of a URL when a special character is inserted into the path of the URL (as a hypothetical). This type of vulnerability would likely yield 6k-12k unless further impact could be demonstrated.