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by 7sidedmarble 939 days ago
That seems to kind of go against the spirit of doing the work to find a vulnerability. It's basically social engineering. Do you get bug bounties for that?
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I wouldn't call it social engineering, because the reporter didn't intend to get the cookies while filing the first report.

It's like the Github scanner that reports leaked tokens.

What's crazy is that the reporter previously filed a bug report about hijacking sessions and then it comes full circle during a different report.

That's karma

The spirit of HackerOne is to encourage hackers to disclose rather than exploit for the reward of money. It makes a lot of sense that they's pay generously as a public statement to any hackers that find vulnerabilities on their systems.
I'd argue it's with the spirit, it's just that the vulnerability resides within your employees rather than your systems. Both are worth a call out and correcting. It's arguable how much either is worth, that being said.