NEAR Protocol: Program info

In-Scope Vulnerabilities

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
• Contracts execution flows
• Consensus flaws
• Peer-to-peer network flaws
• Cryptographic flaws

Out-of-Scope Vulnerabilities

• Network-level DoS

• 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
• 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
• Please note: Near company is entitled to make the payment in their native NEAR token
• In case that your finding is valid you might be asked for extra KYC verification to proceed with payments
• Perform testing on a private testnet wherever possible

For more information, check: https://docs.near.org/

Please note: the issues discovered not in "nearcore" codebase are out of scope in this bug bounty program.

• 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• Please do NOT publish/discuss bugs

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.
• ONLY USE YOUR HackenProof ADDRESS (in case of violation, no bounty can be awarded)
• Provide detailed but to-the point reproduction steps
• Employees, spouses, partners, or families of employees, and former employees of Pagoda, Near, and the Near Foundation, and any subsidiaries, are not eligible to participate in the Bug Bounty program.