PayPal Inc Bug Bounty Program Rewards Researcher for Ethernet Portal Backend Vulnerability in User Profile Values

In 2013 the founder of the vulnerability laboratory "benjamin kunz mejri" discovered a vulnerability inside of the backend service of the paypal inc. The issue was tricky to exploit and located on the application-side of the paypal web-server account system.

In the morning of the 2013-12-02 the security researcher got notified by a secure mail service of an official paypal security manager. The mail reveals the details of an incident and the vulnerability laboratory started investigation in the reverse analysis because of the late response.

List of Bug Bounty Programs & Security Reward Programs became available in April! (NEW UPDATES!)

2 weeks ago we updated the main static header of the laboratory to provide all visitors and members a new (up2date) security program list. The listing has been implemented to provide researchers a trusted place and point for exchange and work-share.

The list provides different categories like vendor, bug bounty/reward, gift/benefit/swag but also security acknowledgements. As special category we also a review of the public and silent security programs. 

The list gets an update every 48h - 74h to become a stable, trusted and free resource. On top of the website are the `Last 5 - New Security Programs` as items to review. A count of the public and silent security program entries is also available to all members and public visitors.