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Hands-On Bug Hunting for Penetration Testers
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Hands-On Bug Hunting for Penetration Testers

by Himanshu Sharma, Joe Marshall
September 2018
Intermediate to advanced
250 pages
8h 22m
English
Packt Publishing
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Maximizing Your Award – The Features That Pay

If you'd like to get a sense of the payout you can expect for a certain bug, it's useful to look at both the individual page of the bounty you're participating in and a vulnerability rating system created by Bugcrowd called the Vulnerability Rating Taxonomy (VRT). The VRT (https://bugcrowd.com/vulnerability-rating-taxonomy) is an attempt to systematically assess a vulnerability's severity in a way that provides a common frame of reference for researchers, developers, and managers alike. The VRT is also compatible with another attempt at providing a common threat metric, the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS)—VRT can be used to calculate CVSS. Understanding the VRT can help you direct your ...

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