Policies

Reporting Security Vulnerabilities for Zipline

Guidelines for Security Researchers

Last updated Jul 03, 2017

This page is intended for security researchers. To find out more about Retail Zipline’s security, please visit our security information page.

If you believe you have found a security vulnerability on Retail Zipline, we encourage you to let us know right away. We will investigate all legitimate reports and do our best to quickly fix the problem.

Please submit your report on HackerOne and our security team will respond as soon as possible.

Responsible Disclosure Policy

If you give us a reasonable time to respond to your report before making any information public and make a good faith effort to avoid privacy violations, destruction of data and interruption or degradation of our service during your research, we will not bring any lawsuit against you or ask law enforcement to investigate you.

To show our appreciation for our security researchers, we offer a monetary bounty for certain qualifying security bugs.

Bug Bounty Rewards

Our minimum reward is $50 USD for minor issues, while we expect to reward $250+ USD for major vulnerabilities


There is no maximum reward: each bug is awarded a bounty based on its severity and creativity


Only 1 bounty per security bug will be awarded

Bug Bounty Eligibility

To qualify for a bounty, you must:

Adhere to our Responsible Disclosure Policy (above)

Be the first person to responsibly disclose the bug

Report a bug that could compromise the integrity of Retail Zipline user data, circumvent the privacy protections of Retail Zipline user data, or enable access to a system within the Retail Zipline infrastructure, such as:

  • Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
  • Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF/XSRF)
  • Broken Authentication (including Retail Zipline OAuth bugs)
  • Remote Code Execution
  • Privilege Escalation
  • Provisioning Errors
  • Please only test with your own organization when investigating bugs. Automated testing is not permitted.
  • Do not interact with other accounts without the consent of their owners.
  • Reside in a country not under any current U.S. Sanctions (e.g., North Korea, Libya, Cuba, etc.)

Our security team will assess each bug to determine if it qualifies.

Exclusions

The following bugs are not eligible for a bounty (and we do not recommend testing for these):

  • Security bugs in third-party applications built on the Retail Zipline API
  • Security bugs in third-party services that integrate with Retail Zipline
  • Denial of Service Vulnerabilities
  • Spam or Social Engineering techniques
  • Issues with systems we have no control over, such as Heroku or Webflow