The Ethereum Basis Bug Bounty Program is among the earliest and longest operating applications of its sort. It was launched in 2015 and focused the Ethereum PoW mainnet and associated software program. In 2020, a second Bug Bounty Program for the brand new Proof-of-Stake Consensus Layer was launched, operating alongside the unique Bug Bounty Program.
The cut up of those applications is historic because of the means the Proof-of-Stake Consensus Layer was architected individually and in parallel to the present Execution Layer (contained in the PoW chain). Because the launch of the Beacon Chain in December of 2020, the technical structure between the Execution Layer and the Consensus Layer has been distinct, aside from the deposit contract, so the 2 bug bounty applications have remained separated.
In gentle of the approaching Merge, right now we’re joyful to announce that these two applications have been efficiently merged by the superior ethereum.org staff, and that the max bounty reward has been considerably elevated!
Merge (of the Bug Bounty Applications) ✨
With The Merge approaching, the 2 beforehand disparate bug bounty applications have been merged into one.
Because the Execution Layer and Consensus Layer turn into increasingly more interconnected, it’s more and more precious to mix the safety efforts of those layers. There are already a number of efforts being organized by shopper groups and the group to additional improve data and experience throughout the 2 layers. Unifying the Bounty Program will additional improve visibility and coordination efforts on figuring out and mitigating vulnerabilities.
Elevated Rewards 💰
The max reward of the Bounty Program is now 500,000 throughout these durations!
In whole, this marks a 10x improve from the earlier most payout on Consensus Layer bounties and a 20x improve from the earlier max payout on Execution Layer bounties.
Affect Measurement 💥
The Bug Bounty Program is primarily targeted on securing the bottom layer of the Ethereum Community. With this in thoughts, the impression of a vulnerability is in direct correlation to the impression on the community as an entire.
Whereas, for instance, a Denial of Service vulnerability present in a shopper being utilized by <1% of the community would definitely trigger points for the customers of this shopper, it might have a better impression on the Ethereum Community if the identical vulnerability existed in a shopper utilized by >30% of the community.
Visibility 👀
Along with the merge of the bounty applications and improve of the max reward, a number of steps have been taken to make clear how you can report vulnerabilities.
Github Safety
Repositories resembling ethereum/consensus-specs and ethereum/go-ethereum now comprise data on how you can report vulnerabilities in SECURITY.md recordsdata.
safety.txt
security.txt is carried out and incorporates details about how you can report vulnerabilities. The file itself can be found here.
DNS Safety TXT
DNS Security TXT is carried out and incorporates details about how you can report vulnerabilities. This entry will be considered by operating dig _security.ethereum.org TXT.
How will you get began? 🔨
With 9 totally different shoppers written in numerous languages, Solidity, the Specs, and the deposit good contract all throughout the scope of the bounty program, there’s a lots for bounty hunters to dig into.
In case you’re in search of some concepts of the place to begin your bug searching journey, check out the previously reported vulnerabilities. This was final up to date in March and incorporates all of the reported vulnerabilities we’ve got on document, up till the Altair community improve.
We’re trying ahead to your experiences! 🐛