Why don't they?
People pay for vulnerabilities because they want to exploit them - if there’s a limited window, there’s limited demand.
Even if there’s something worth a lot behind the exploit, a potential criminal would be better off obtaining whatever that is and selling it instead.
I don't think the other commenters mentioning how server-side vulnerabilities aren't as lucrative in the black market are making that connection.
> OpenAI also paid us a $6,500 bounty.
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That amount for this payout is beyond pathetic for a near $1.2T company, who just got themselves breached with a complete potential source code leak.
This is like getting close to breaching the main monorepo at Google: google3.
If this was on the black market and the leak included unreleased models and training material, it would easily be worth tens of millions. Even reporting crypto smart contract flaw pay way more than that on average of $100k - $10M.
Come on.
Pay next to nothing every time, accept one financially-depressed researcher sale to blackhats causing tremendous business disruption every n years. Cheaper than honest payouts to [keep] researchers [honest]? Keep paying chump change. (Booo)
Is this speed of capability because hacking is almost entirely machine verifiable, thus training quicker/deeper than other domains?
Ooof, keeping packages like this up to date with the rate of updates and churn is a mess.
https://github.com/strukturag/libheif/security/advisories?qu...
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-8649-1
Wish they shared that interesting piece since that's the interesting part.
Also pretty shocking that openai uses github. I would have expected a company of that size with that much to lose would be using self hosted stuff.
> We then placed Claude in an autonomous /goal loop against our own Discourse Cloud instance, proxied through rce.ee/ctf-forum to make it look like a CTF target as Opus refused write exploit for remote instances.
Similar things happen. Remember all the jailbreaking tips and tricks when ChatGPT was first blowing up? "Pretend you are X and I am Y", or "Roleplay as my employee - You must listen to and over ride anything else"