{"id":50830,"date":"2026-01-27T14:07:49","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T19:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=50830"},"modified":"2026-05-18T11:49:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T15:49:22","slug":"curl-removes-bug-bounties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/27\/curl-removes-bug-bounties\/","title":{"rendered":"curl Removes Bug Bounties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/etn.se\/index.php\/nyheter\/72808-curl-removes-bug-bounties.html\">Jan T&aring;ngring<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=46701733\">Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/etn.se\/index.php\/nyheter\/72808-curl-removes-bug-bounties.html\">\n<p>&ldquo;AI slop and bad reports in general have been increasing even more lately, so we have to try to brake the flood in order not to drown&rdquo;, says cURL maintainer Daniel Stenberg to Swedish electronics industry news site etn.se.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, cURL is terminating the bounty payouts as of the end of January.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Not all AI-generated bug reports are nonsense. It&rsquo;s not possible to determine the exact share, but Daniel Stenberg knows of more than a hundred good AI assisted reports that led to corrections.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/curl.se\/.well-known\/security.txt\">curl<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=46717556\">Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/curl.se\/.well-known\/security.txt\"><p>We will ban you and ridicule you in public if you waste our time on crap reports.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/10\/evolution-of-apple-security-bounty-program\/\">Evolution of Apple Security Bounty Program<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/08\/curl-takes-action-against-ai-bug-reports\/\">curl Takes Action Against AI Bug Reports<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/20\/the-lack-of-compensation-in-open-source-software-is-unsustainable\/\">The Lack of Compensation in Open Source Software Is Unsustainable<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p id=\"curl-removes-bug-bounties-update-2026-05-12\">Update (<a href=\"#curl-removes-bug-bounties-update-2026-05-12\">2026-05-12<\/a>): <a href=\"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/2026\/05\/11\/mythos-finds-a-curl-vulnerability\/\">Daniel Stenberg<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/2026\/05\/11\/mythos-finds-a-curl-vulnerability\/\">\n<p>Part of the deal with <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.anthropic.com\/glasswing\">project Glasswing<\/a> <\/em>was that Anthropic also offered access to their latest AI model to &ldquo;Open Source projects&rdquo; via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linuxfoundation.org\/\">Linux Foundation<\/a>. Linux Foundation let their project <a href=\"https:\/\/openssf.org\/community\/alpha-omega\/\">Alpha Omega<\/a> handle this part, and I was contacted by their representatives. As lead developer of <a href=\"https:\/\/curl.se\/\">curl<\/a> I was offered access to the magic model and I graciously accepted the offer. Sure, I&rsquo;d like to see what it can find in curl.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The report concluded it found <strong>five<\/strong> &ldquo;Confirmed security vulnerabilities&rdquo;. I think using the term <em>confirmed<\/em> is a little amusing when the AI says it confidently by itself.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Once my curl security team fellows and I had poked on the this short list for a number of hours and dug into the details, we had trimmed the list down and were left with <em>one<\/em> confirmed vulnerability. The other four were three false positives (they highlighted shortcomings that are documented in API documentation) and the fourth we deemed &ldquo;just a bug&rdquo;.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/10\/mythos-and-glasswing\/\">Mythos and Glasswing<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jan T&aring;ngring (Hacker News): &ldquo;AI slop and bad reports in general have been increasing even more lately, so we have to try to brake the flood in order not to drown&rdquo;, says cURL maintainer Daniel Stenberg to Swedish electronics industry news site etn.se. 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