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Kaia Protocol: Program info

Kaia Protocol

Company: Kaia
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Official golang implementation of the Kaia blockchain.

In scope
TargetTypeSeverity
https://github.com/kaiachain/kaia
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Target
https://github.com/kaiachain/kaia
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TypeProtocol
Severity
Critical

Focus Area

Kairos Testnet (as well as Kaia Mainnet) is part of Kaia's production infrastructure. It is used by real users and services and must not be targeted for security testing, stress testing, or exploitation attempts.

To avoid service disruption, all vulnerability research and testing must be performed on a local private network only.

For example, set up a local Kaia network using: https://github.com/kaiachain/kaiaspray/tree/main/local-deploy

You can test the system smart contracts on a local fork network: https://docs.kaia.io/build/smart-contracts/deployment-and-verification/deploy/foundry/#forking-mainnet-with-cast-and-anvil

IN SCOPE VULNERABILITIES: Blockchain Protocol

The list is not limited to the following submissions, but it gives an overview of what issues we care about:

  • Stealing or loss of funds
  • Unauthorized transaction
  • Transaction manipulation
  • Price manipulation
  • Fee payment bypass
  • Balance manipulation
  • Violation of tokenomics
  • Privacy violation
  • Cryptographic flaws

OUT OF SCOPE VULNERABILITIES: Blockchain Protocol

  • Network-level DoS

Program Rules

  • Avoid using web application scanners for automatic vulnerability searching which generates massive traffic
  • Make every effort not to damage or restrict the availability of products, services, or infrastructure
  • Avoid compromising any personal data, interruption, or degradation of any service
  • Don’t access or modify other user data, localize all tests to your accounts
  • Perform testing only within the scope
  • Don’t exploit any DoS/DDoS vulnerabilities, social engineering attacks, or spam
  • Don’t spam forms or account creation flows using automated scanners
  • In case you find chain vulnerabilities we’ll pay only for vulnerability with the highest severity.
  • Don’t break any law and stay in the defined scope
  • Any details of found vulnerabilities must not be communicated to anyone who is not a HackenProof Team or an authorized employee of this Company without appropriate permission

Disclosure Guidelines

  • Do not discuss this program or any vulnerabilities (even resolved ones) outside of the program without express consent from the organization
  • No vulnerability disclosure, including partial is allowed for the moment.
  • Please do NOT publish/discuss bugs

Eligibility and Coordinated Disclosure

We are happy to thank everyone who submits valid reports which help us improve the security. However, only those that meet the following eligibility requirements may receive a monetary reward:

  • You must be the first reporter of a vulnerability.
  • The vulnerability must be a qualifying vulnerability
  • Any vulnerability found must be reported no later than 24 hours after discovery and exclusively through hackenproof.com
  • You must send a clear textual description of the report along with steps to reproduce the issue, include attachments such as screenshots or proof of concept code as necessary.
  • You must not be a former or current employee of us or one of its contractor.
  • ONLY USE the EMAIL under which you registered your HackenProof account (in case of violation, no bounty can be awarded)
  • Provide detailed but to-the point reproduction steps
  • AI-generated reports without runable PoC are not accepted under this program.

Documentation

More details on Kaia design, node operation guides and application development resources: https://docs.kaia.io

Rewards
Range of bounty$200 - $50,000
Severity
Critical
$30,000 - $50,000
High
$5,000 - $10,000
Medium
$1,000 - $2,000
Low
$200 - $700
Stats
Scope Review48170
Submissions445
Total rewards$7,200
Types
blockchain
Languages
Go
Solidity
Project types
L1/L2
Hackers (124) View all
SLA (Service Level Agreement)
Time within which the program's triage team must respond
Response TypeBusiness days
First Response3d
Triage Time3d
Reward Time3d
Resolution Time14d