Kubernetes Bug Bounty Program Officially Launched for All Researchers

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We aimed to set up this bug bounty program as transparently as possible, with an initial proposal, evaluation of vendors, and working draft of the components in scope. Once we onboarded the selected bug bounty program vendor, HackerOne, these documents were further refined based on the feedback from HackerOne, as well as what was learned in the recent Kubernetes security audit. The bug bounty program has been in a private release for several months now, with invited researchers able to submit bugs and help us test the triage process. After almost two years since the initial proposal, the program is now ready for all security researchers to contribute!


Notably out of scope is the community management tooling, e.g., the Kubernetes mailing lists or Slack channel. Container escapes, attacks on the Linux kernel, or other dependencies, such as etcd, are also out of scope and should be reported to the appropriate party. We would still appreciate that any Kubernetes vulnerability, even if not in scope for the bug bounty, be disclosed privately to the Kubernetes Product Security Committee. See the full scope on the program reporting page.


With our bug bounty program, initial triage and initial assessment are handled by the bug bounty provider, in this case, HackerOne, enabling us better scale our limited Kubernetes security experts to handle only valid reports. Nothing else in this process is changing - the Product Security Committee will continue to develop fixes, build private patches, and coordinate special security releases. New releases with security patches will be announced at kubernetes-security-announce@googlegroups.com.


Just as many organizations support open source by hiring developers, paying bug bounties directly supports security researchers. This bug bounty is a critical step for Kubernetes to build up its community of security researchers and reward their hard work.


We believe there is immense value in having a bug bounty program as part of our cybersecurity strategy, and we encourage all companies, not just those in the hospitality industry, to take a similar approach and consider bug bounty as a proactive security initiative.


Crowdfense officially launched the Vulnerability Research Hub out of beta. After being internally developed and fine-tuned for several months, Crowdfense opened their process-oriented platform to a wider audience of researchers and brokers interested in trading 0day cyber capabilities, which can be both within the scope of Crowdfense public Bug Bounty Program or freely proposed (for a specific set of key targets).


The platform allows researchers to submit 0day capabilities which are then reviewed together with the Crowdfense team. Once a submission is substantiated, Crowdfense works with the researcher to contract for final deliverable, test the code and award the bounty.


Google actively engages with the security research community throughmultiple vulnerability reward programs.A dedicated Google Cloud vulnerability rewards program providessignificant bounties,including $133,337 for the best cloud vulnerability found each year. For GKE, there is a program that rewardssecurity researchers if they are able tobreak our security controls.The program covers all GKE software dependencies.





Bug bounties have become mainstream and rightfully so. They offer a method to access and harness the intelligence of varied set of expert hackers and security researchers without having to incur the cost of hiring an army of security professionals. The main advantage though is that one can keep a step ahead of the malicious hackers. This article talks about how to setup a bug bounty program and some of the pitfalls to watch out for.


There are many organised bug bounty platforms which streamline this process. The most

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