Vulnerability Disclosure Policy

INTRODUCTION

This Vulnerability Disclosure Policy applies to any application and website vulnerabilities you are considering reporting to the owner of this website Datadean Limited. We recommend reading this vulnerability disclosure policy fully before you report a vulnerability and always acting in compliance with it.

We value those who take the time and effort to report security vulnerabilities according to this policy. However, we do not offer monetary rewards for vulnerability disclosures.

REPORTING

If you believe you have found a security vulnerability, please submit your report to us using the following link:
https://www.metalsearchers.com/contact/

In your email to our support website, please include details of:

  • The application, website, IP or page where the vulnerability can be observed.
  • A brief description of the type of vulnerability, for example "XSS vulnerability".
  • Steps to reproduce. These should be a benign, non-destructive, proof of concept. This helps to ensure that the report can be triaged quickly and accurately. It also reduces the likelihood of duplicate reports, or malicious exploitation of some vulnerabilities, such as subdomain takeovers.

WHAT TO EXPECT

After you have submitted your report, we will respond to your report within 5 working days and aim to triage your report within 10 working days. We'll also aim to keep you informed of our progress.

Priority for remediation is assessed by looking at the impact, severity ad exploit complexity. Vulnerability reports might take dome time to triage or address. You are welcome to enquire on the status but should avoid doing so more than once every 14 days. This allows our development teams to focus on remediation.

We will notify you when the reported vulnerability is remedied, and you may be invited to confirm that the solution covers the vulnerability adequately.

Once the vulnerability has been resolved, we welcome requests to disclose your report. We's like to unify guidance to affected users, so please do continue to coordinate public release with us.

GUIDANCE

You must NOT:

  • Break any applicable law or regulations.
  • Access unnecessary, excessive or significant amounts of data.
  • Modify data in Datadean Limited's systems or services.
  • Use high-intensity invasive or destructive scanning tools to find vulnerabilities.
  • Attempt or report any form of denial of service, e.g. overwhelming a service with a high volume of requests.
  • Disrupt Datadean's systems or services.
  • Submit reports detailing non-exploitable vulnerabilities, or submit reports indicating that the services do not fully align with "best practice", for example missing security headers.
  • Submit reports detailing TLS configuration weaknesses, for example "weak" cipher suite support or the presence of TLS 1.0 support.
  • Communicate any vulnerabilities or associated details other than by means described in the published Security.txt file.
  • Social engineer, 'phish' or physically attack Datadean Limited's staff or infrastructure.
  • Demand financial compensation in order to disclose vulnerabilities.
  • Violate the privacy of Datadean Limited's users, staff, contractors, services or systems.
  • Share, redistribute or fail to properly secure data retrieved from the systems or services.

You must:

  • Always comply with data protection rules.
  • Secure delete all data retrieved during your research as soon as it is no longer required or within 1 month of the vulnerability being resolved, whichever occurs first (or otherwise required by data protection law).

LEGALITIES

This policy is designed to be compatible with common vulnerability disclosure good practice. It does not give you permission to act in any manner that is inconsistent with the law, or which might cause Datadean Limited or partner organisations to be in breach of any legal obligations.

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