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Bugcrowd

Bug bounty and vulnerability disclosure platform connecting client organisations with external security researchers.

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investConfirmed8 publishers

A help-forum sign-in handed three researchers OpenAI employees' Codex accounts

Hacktron chained an image-library bug in OpenAI's Discourse forum to a single sign-on misconfiguration, reached employee ChatGPT and Codex accounts inside 72 hours, and the repair OpenAI describes is a narrowing of token permissions.

Perspective Coverage

9 publishers
Builder
Builder 32%
Operator
Operator 37%
Investor
Investor 31%

Reality

Evidence80
Adoption45
Hype gap+15
Incentives68
Confidence72
leadershipConfirmed4 publishers

OpenAI paid $6,500 for a three-bug chain that reached its private monorepo

Hacktron AI chained a Discourse image-library flaw to a weakness in OpenAI's single sign-on and into the Codex environment in under 72 hours, after swapping Claude Opus 4.8 for Opus 5 to get a working exploit.

Perspective Coverage

4 publishers
Builder
Builder 30%
Operator
Operator 41%
Investor
Investor 29%

Reality

Evidence60
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+30
Incentives65
Confidence55
buildOne report1 publisher

Hacktron chained an unflagged libheif overflow to write access on OpenAI's monorepo

Hacktron chained a heap overflow in libheif to an OpenAI SSO flaw and opened a pull request in OpenAI's internal monorepo in under 72 hours. The bug had been fixed upstream a year earlier, but the fix never reached Debian's packages.

Publishers:dev.to

Reality

Evidence45
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+25
Incentives50
Confidence40
securityConfirmed6 publishers

Hacktron chained a Claude-written libheif exploit into OpenAI's internal repositories

The libheif bug was fixed upstream a year earlier without a security label or a CVE, so a Discourse image check that ignored HEIC left it reachable, and forum sign-in tokens carried full API access to the accounts behind them.

Perspective Coverage

6 publishers
Builder
Builder 35%
Operator
Operator 55%
Investor
Investor 10%

Reality

Evidence70
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+20
Incentives55
Confidence66
securityOne report1 publisher

Three quarters of security teams are funding AI without a budget line for it

An IANS and Artico survey puts AI at about 3 percent of the average security budget, and 24 percent of organizations have given it a line of its own. Bugcrowd's CEO says the rest comes out of what was already bought.

Reality

Evidence40
Adoption48
Hype gap+15
Incentives78
Confidence45
buildOne report1 publisher

Two ordinary defects carried Hacktron from a forum image upload to OpenAI's internal monorepo

Hacktron's path into OpenAI's internal repos ran through a libheif bug Debian had not backported and a single sign-on flow that trusted community.openai.com. The dev.to breakdown says the model changed what the attack cost. The category of attack was the same either way.

Publishers:dev.to

Reality

Evidence66
Adoption72
Hype gap−12
Incentives58
Confidence63