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Jason Haddix edited this page May 11, 2017 · 1 revision

Philosophy

Differences from standard testing Single-sourced:

Regular Testing:

  • looking mostly for common-ish vulns
  • not competing with others
  • incentivized for the count
  • payment guaranteed and quality check based on an approximation

Crowdsourced:

  • looking for vulns that aren’t as easy to find
  • racing vs. time
  • competitive vs. others
  • incentivized to find unique bugs
  • payment based on impact not the number of findings

Tips / Notes:

1st party bug bounties = Google Paypal, etc 2nd party bug bounties = Bugcrowd, H1, Synack, etc

Because competition is introduced; when working in a bug bounty it is essential to have templates set up for your "most found" classes of vulnerabilities. Obviously, custom vulnerabilities will always be custom writeups, but having a template for ones that come up often is essential. Protip: always remember to change the URLS and domains in the templates. Nothing will get a bug invalidated faster than stating the wrong domain or URLs in a report.

When designing these templates there are two really great resources to read:

https://blog.bugcrowd.com/advice-for-writing-a-great-vulnerability-report/ https://forum.bugcrowd.com/t/writing-a-bug-report-attack-scenario-and-impact-are-key/640