Security News > 2020 > January > Hackers Can Earn $20,000 for Xbox Vulnerabilities
Microsoft on Thursday announced the launch of an Xbox bug bounty program with rewards of up to $20,000 for critical remote code execution vulnerabilities.
The company is hoping to receive reports describing XSS, CSRF, IDOR, insecure deserialization, injection, server-side code execution, security misconfigurations, and the use of components with known vulnerabilities.
The vulnerabilities can lead to remote code execution, privilege escalation, security bypass, information disclosure, spoofing, or tampering.
Remote code execution flaws can earn hackers between $5,000 and $20,000, and privilege escalation vulnerabilities are worth between $1,000 and $8,000.
"Since launching in 2002, the Xbox network has enabled millions of users to share their common love of gaming on a safe and secure service. The bounty program supplements our existing investments in security development and testing to uncover and remediate vulnerabilities which have a direct and demonstrable impact on the security of Xbox customers," Microsoft said in a blog post.