Google will now pay bigger rewards for discovering Chrome security bugs

guest · Jul 18, 2019

Google will now pay bigger rewards for discovering Chrome security bugs
July 18, 2019
https://techcrunch.com/2019/07/18/g...rewards-for-discovering-chrome-security-bugs/

Google launched a bug bounty program for Chrome in 2010. Today, they’re increasing the maximum rewards for that program by 2-3x.

Rewards in Chrome’s bug bounty program vary considerably based on how severe a bug is and how detailed your report is — a “baseline” report with fewer details will generally earn less than a “high-quality” report [...]
The maximum payout for a baseline report is increasing from $5,000 to $15,000, while the maximum payout for a high-quality report is being bumped from $15,000 to $30,000.

There’s one type of exploit that Google is particularly interested in: those that compromise a Chromebook or Chromebox device running in guest mode, and that aren’t fixed with a quick reboot. Google first offered a $50,000 reward for this type of bug, increasing it to $100,000 in 2016 after no one had managed to claim it. Today they’re bumping it to $150,000.
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They’ve also introduced a new exploit category for Chrome OS rewards: lockscreen bypasses. If you can get around the lockscreen (by pulling information out of a locked user session, for example,) Google will pay out up to $15,000.
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