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Bug Bounty
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Collaboration makes us all stronger
An external researcher, Mehmet Ince, reported a memory-safety flaw in PostGIS’s address_standardizer extension, where caller-controlled grammar data indexed a fixed-size array without bounds checking. Because the extension was available to ordinary tenant roles on managed Postgres services, Databricks treated the issue as a platform exposure rather than a third-party problem, while noting that its microVM architecture meant the exploit did not produce cross-customer impact on Lakebase Postgres and Neon. Detection alerted the Neon team during testing, enabling rapid validation and downstream patching while a durable fix was developed and deployed to protect tenants without customer action. The upstream fix initially missed cases; Mehmet supplied the remaining pieces, and the complete correction was returned to PostGIS, with his bounty donated and matched for the project.
Aaron Kobayashi, Mehmet D. Ince, Anurag Srivastava, Alexey KondratovShopify ·
One Million Dollars in Bug Bounties
Shopify announces that it has awarded more than $1M USD through its bug bounty programs, which complement its security strategy by bringing in researchers with varied perspectives to assess the platform. The company says it is the fifth public program among 176 on HackerOne to reach that milestone, after four years of working with researchers. It describes three resolved vulnerabilities: an SSRF in Shopify Exchange that could provide root access within one infrastructure subset, an admin authentication bypass involving duplicate partner accounts, and stored cross-site scripting from improperly sanitized sales-channel SVG files. Shopify disabled or audited affected services, deployed a metadata-concealment proxy, corrected account verification, removed unnecessary admin functionality, and checked for exploitation. It plans to experiment with ways to increase hacker engagement and make the program more attractive.
2023-10-18
