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April 26, 2020 04:04 pm

Firefox Raises Its Bug Bounties to $10,000

"We're updating our bug bounty policy and payouts to make it more appealing to researchers and reflect the more hardened security stance we adopted after moving to a multi-process, sandboxed architecture," reports the Mozilla security blog:Besides rewarding duplicate submissions, we're clarifying our payout criteria and raising the payouts for higher impact bugs. Now, sandbox escapes and related bugs will be eligible for a baseline $8,000, with a high quality report up to $10,000. Additionally, proxy bypass bugs are eligible for a baseline of $3,000, with a high quality report up to $5,000... Additionally, we'll be publishing more posts about how to get started testing Firefox — which is something we began by talking about the HTML Sanitization we rely on to prevent UXSS. By following the instructions there you can immediately start trying to bypass our sanitizer using your existing Firefox installation in less than a minute... Lastly, we would like to let you know that we have cross-posted this to our new Attack & Defense blog. This new blog is a vehicle for tailored content specifically for engineers, security researchers, and Firefox bug bounty participants. They point out that Firefox has one of the world's oldest bug bounty programs, dating back to 2004 -- and it's still going strong. "From 2017-2019, we paid out $965,750 to researchers across 348 bugs, making the average payout $2,775 — but as you can see in the graph below, our most common payout was actually $4,000!"

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