Last updated: January 11, 2023

Responsible Disclosure Policy

Important note: for any immediate security report please proceed to our report page.

The security of the MultiversX blockchain, and associated core components, is a top priority for MultiversX. Our Proof of Stake network is secured by considerable amounts of EGLD and provides valuable services for business or private use. Our mission is to become a layer of trust for digital financial systems at internet scale, and the highest level of security is a mandatory prerequisite.

The security researcher community regularly makes valuable contributions to the security of organizations and the broader Internet, and MultiversX recognizes that fostering a close relationship with the community will help improve the security of the MultiversX blockchain. So if you have information about a vulnerability in the MultiversX blockchain and associated components, we want to hear from you.

Reporting a Security Issue

Please DO send an email to security[@]multiversx[.]com

Please DO NOT open public issues on Github that contain information about a potential security vulnerability as this makes it difficult to reduce the impact of valid security issues.

What to include:

  • Well-written reports in English will have a higher chance of being accepted
  • Reports that include proof of concept code will be more likely to be accepted
  • Reports that include only crash dumps or other automated tool output will most likely not be accepted
  • Reports that include products & services that are out of scope (see the Scope section below) will not be considered
  • Include how you found the bug, the impact, and any potential remediation
  • Any plans for public disclosure

What you can expect from us:

  • A timely response to your email (within 2 business days).
  • An open dialog to discuss issues.
  • Credit after the vulnerability has been validated and fixed.

Coordinated Responsible Disclosure Policy

We ask security researchers to keep vulnerabilities and communications around vulnerability submissions private and confidential until a patch is developed to protect the MultiversX blockchain and its users.

Please do:

  • Allow the MultiversX team a reasonable amount of time address security vulnerabilities
  • Avoid exploiting any vulnerabilities that you discover
  • Demonstrate good faith by not disrupting or degrading MultiversX services, products & data

MultiversX pledges not to initiate legal action against researchers as long as they adhere to this policy.

Responsible Disclosure Process

  1. Once a security report is received, the MultiversX team verifies the issue and establishes the potential threat
  2. Patches to address the issues will be prepared and tested on private testnets
  3. The Validators community is informed about an upcoming public testnet release to prepare them for upgrading in a timely manner
  4. The public testnet is patched and additional tests are performed
  5. The Validators community is informed about an upcoming mainnet release to prepare them for upgrading in a timely manner
  6. The mainnet is patched and additional tests are performed
  7. We publish a security advisory on GitHub
  8. We give credit and applicable rewards to the submitter(s) of the issue

Scope

Out of scope

  • Scam & phishing attempts involving MultiversX products
  • Lost or compromised secret phrases, keystore files or private keys
  • Physical vulnerabilities
  • Social Engineering attacks
  • Functional, UI, and UX bugs such as spelling mistakes
  • Descriptive error messages
  • HTTP error codes/pages

Contact Us

Important note: for any immediate security report please proceed to our report page.

In order to protect the MultiversX ecosystem, we request that you not post or share any information about a potential vulnerability in any public setting until we have researched, responded to, and addressed the reported vulnerability and informed partners if needed.

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