{"id":9439,"date":"2021-03-16T16:44:48","date_gmt":"2021-03-16T20:44:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mmc.gov\/?page_id=9439"},"modified":"2021-03-16T16:44:48","modified_gmt":"2021-03-16T20:44:48","slug":"vulnerability-disclosure-policy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.mmc.gov\/vulnerability-disclosure-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Vulnerability Disclosure Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"heading-two\" class=\"heading-two\" id=\"introduction\">Introduction<\/h2>\n<p>The Marine Mammal Commission is committed to ensuring the security of the American public by protecting their information. This policy is intended to give security researchers clear guidelines for conducting vulnerability discovery activities and to convey our preferences in how to submit discovered vulnerabilities to us.<\/p>\n<p>This policy describes\u00a0<strong>what systems and types of research<\/strong>\u00a0are covered under this policy,\u00a0<strong>how to send us<\/strong>\u00a0vulnerability reports, and\u00a0<strong>how long<\/strong>\u00a0we ask security researchers to wait before publicly disclosing vulnerabilities.<\/p>\n<p>We encourage you to contact us to report potential vulnerabilities in our systems.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"heading-two\" class=\"heading-two\" id=\"authorization\">Authorization<\/h2>\n<p>If you make a good faith effort to comply with this policy during your security research, we will consider your research to be authorized, we will work with you to understand and resolve the issue quickly, and the Marine Mammal Commission will not recommend or pursue legal action related to your research. Should legal action be initiated by a third party against you for activities that were conducted in accordance with this policy, we will make this authorization known.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"heading-two\" class=\"heading-two\" id=\"guidelines\">Guidelines<\/h2>\n<p>Under this policy, “research” means activities in which you:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Notify us as soon as possible after you discover a real or potential security issue<\/li>\n<li>Make every effort to avoid privacy violations, degradation of user experience, disruption to production systems, and destruction or manipulation of data.<\/li>\n<li>Only use exploits to the extent necessary to confirm a vulnerability\u2019s presence. Do not use an exploit to compromise or exfiltrate data, establish persistent command line access, or use the exploit to pivot to other systems.<\/li>\n<li>Provide us a reasonable amount of time to resolve the issue before you disclose it publicly.<\/li>\n<li>Do not submit a high volume of low-quality reports.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Once you\u2019ve established that a vulnerability exists or encounter any sensitive data (including personally identifiable information, financial information, or proprietary information or trade secrets of any party), <strong>you must stop your test, notify us immediately, and not disclose this data to anyone else.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"heading-two\" class=\"heading-two\" id=\"test-methods\">Test methods<\/h2>\n<p>The following test methods are not authorized:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Network denial of service (DoS or DDoS) tests or other tests that impair access to or damage a system or data<\/li>\n<li>Physical testing (e.g. office access, open doors, tailgating), social engineering (e.g. phishing, vishing), or any other non-technical vulnerability testing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 class=\"heading-two\" class=\"heading-two\" id=\"scope\">Scope<\/h2>\n<p>This policy applies to the following systems and services:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>MMC.GOV<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Any service not expressly listed above, such as any connected services, are excluded from scope\u00a0<\/strong>and are not authorized for testing. Additionally, vulnerabilities found in systems from our vendors fall outside of this policy\u2019s scope and should be reported directly to the vendor according to their disclosure policy (if any). If you aren\u2019t sure whether a system is in scope or not, contact us at mmc@mmc.gov\u00a0before starting your research (or at the security contact for the system\u2019s domain name listed in the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">.gov WHOIS<\/span>).<\/p>\n<p>Though we develop and maintain other internet-accessible systems or services, we ask that <em>active research and testing<\/em> only be conducted on the systems and services covered by the scope of this document. If there is a particular system not in scope that you think merits testing, please contact us to discuss it first. We will increase the scope of this policy over time.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"heading-two\" class=\"heading-two\" id=\"reporting-a-vulnerability\">Reporting a vulnerability<\/h2>\n<p>Information submitted under this policy will be used for defensive purposes only \u2013 to mitigate or remediate vulnerabilities. If your findings include newly discovered vulnerabilities that affect all users of a product or service and not solely the Marine Mammal Commission, we may share your report with the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, where it will be handled under their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cisa.gov\/coordinated-vulnerability-disclosure-process\">coordinated vulnerability disclosure process<\/a>. We will not share your name or contact information without express permission.<\/p>\n<p><strong>We accept vulnerability reports via mmc@mmc.gov.<\/strong> Reports may be submitted anonymously. 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