Awesome Google VRP Writeups
🐛 A list of writeups from the Google VRP Bug Bounty program
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Writeups:
2024:
[Nov 11 - $???] Release-Drafter To google/accompanist Compromise: VRP Writeup* by Adnan Khan
[Sep 25 - $4,837] XS-Search on Google Photos* by NDevTK
[Sep 19 - $3,133.7] Office Editing for Docs Sheets & Slides leak* by NDevTK
[Sep 19 - $4,133.7] Using YouTube to steal your files* by Lyra Rebane
[Aug 24 - $1,337] Exploiting Sandbox Escape Vulnerability in Apigee PythonScript Policy* by Nikita Markevich
[Aug 16 - $1,337] Kicking Off the Apigee Security Series: Discovering Rhino’s Blind Spot* by Nikita Markevich
[Aug 04 - $???] How I Got Critical P2 Bug on Google* by Kazi Hashibur Rahman
[Aug 02 - $1,000] Chromium infra leak* by NDevTK
[Aug 01 - $3,133.7] idx.google.com XSS* by NDevTK
[Aug 01 - $14,008.7] Android web attack surface* by NDevTK
[Jul 31 - $???] Escalating Privileges in Google Cloud via Open Groups* by Thomas Elling
[Jul 26 - $???] Leaking All Users Google Drive Files* by Cameron Vincent
[Apr 15 - $7,500] An Obscure Actions Workflow Vulnerability in Google’s Flank* by Adnan Khan
[Mar 04 - $50,000] We Hacked Google A.I. for $50,000* by Lupin
2023:
[Nov 14 - $10,000] Uncovering a crazy privilege escalation from Chrome extensions* by Derin Eryilmaz
[Nov 14 - $???] Google VRP -[IDOR] Deleted Victim Data & Leaked* by Gilang Romadon
[Sep 18 - $???] How i found an Stored XSS on Google Books* by Sokol Çavdarbasha
[Aug 18 - $18,833.7] Google Extensions* by NDevTK
[Jul 22 - $???] Hijacking Cloud CI/CD Systems for Fun and Profit* by Divyanshu
[Jul 07 - $0] A Journey Into Hacking Google Search Appliance* by DEVCORE
[Jul 03 - $500] Hunting for Nginx Alias Traversals in the wild* by Hakai Offensive Security
[Jun 30 - $???] Server-side Template Injection Leading to RCE on Google VRP* by mizzleneupane
[Jun 23 - $1,337] Insecure sandbox on Colaboratory* by NDevTK
[Jun 11 - $7,500] googlesource.com access_token leak* by NDevTK
[Jun 09 - $6,000] XSS in GMAIL Dynamic Email (AMP for Email)* by asdqw3
[Mar 31 - $0] Unveiling the Secrets: My Journey of Hacking Google’s OSS* by 7h3h4ckv157
[Mar 28 - $???] The curl quirk that exposed Burp Suite & Google Chrome* by Paul Mutton
[Mar 18 - $???] Exploiting aCropalypse: Recovering Truncated PNGs* by David Buchanan
[Mar 13 - $5,000] The Time I Hacked Google’s Manual Actions Database* by Tom Anthony
[Feb 10 - $500] Information disclosure or GDPR breach? A Google tale…* by Luke Berner
[Jan 15 - $3,133.7] XSS using postMessage in Google Cloud Theia notebooks [Google VRP]* by Sreeram KL
[Jan 13 - $3,133.7] Bypassing authorization in Google Cloud Workstations [Google VRP]* by Sivanesh Ashok
[Jan 12 - $6,000] SSH key injection in Google Cloud Compute Engine [Google VRP]* by Sivanesh Ashok
[Jan 12 - $3,133.7] Client-Side SSRF to Google Cloud Project Takeover [Google VRP]* by Sreeram KL
[Jan 06 - $2,337] Identity-Aware Proxy Misconfiguration- Google Cloud Vulnerability* by Borna Nematzadeh
2022:
[Dec 26 - $107,500] Turning Google smart speakers into wiretaps for $100k* by Matt Kunze
[Dec 26 - $20,000] Few bugs in the google cloud shell* by Obmi
[Nov 10 - $70,000] Accidental $70k Google Pixel Lock Screen Bypass* by David Schütz
[Sep 22 - $0] Exploiting Distroless Images* by Daniel Teixeira
[Sep 16 - $???] Cloning internal Google repos for fun and… info?* by Luke Berner
[Sep 06 - $3,133.7] IDOR leads to removing members from any Google Chat Space.* by Vivek M
[Jul 26 - $8,133.7] Google Play and DevSite XSS* by NDevTK
[Jun 09 - $???] How to download eBooks from Google Play Store without paying for them* by Yess
[Apr 23 - $1,337] Launching a Supply Chain Counterattack Against Google and OpenSSF* by Alan Cao
[Mar 25 - $0] Clipboard hazard with Google Sheets* by Imre Rad
[Mar 08 - $???] Container Escape to Shadow Admin: GKE Autopilot Vulnerabilities* by Unit 42
[Feb 06 - $2,674] Auth Bypass in Google Assistant* by David Schütz
[Feb 06 - $1,337] Auth Bypass in com.google.android.googlequicksearchbox* by David Schütz
[Feb 02 - $???] How I Was Able To Track You Around The Globe!* by Nikhil Kaushik
2021:
[Dec 30 - $5,000] Email storage leaking ticket-attachment* by NDevTK
[Dec 28 - $3,133.7] RCE in Google Cloud Dataflow* by Mike Brancato
[Dec 25 - $???] How I Saved Christmas For Google!* by Nikhil Kaushik
[Dec 21 - $5,000] Google Cloud Shell XSS* by NDevTK
[Dec 05 - $6,267.4] SSRF vulnerability in AppSheet - Google VRP* by David Nechuta
[Nov 17 - $10,401.1] Reacting to myself finding an SSRF vulnerability in Google Cloud* by David Schütz
[Oct 24 - $7,500] A 7500$ Google sites IDOR* by r0ckin
[Oct 18 - $???] The Speckle Umbrella story — part 2* by Imre Rad
[Oct 11 - $0] Hacking YouTube With MP4* by Florian Mathieu
[Oct 08 - $25,401.1] 4 Weird Google VRP Bugs in 40 Minutes - Hacktivity 2021* by David Schütz
[Sep 28 - $???] Google Extensible Service Proxy v1 - CWE-287 Improper Authentication* by Imre Rad
[Sep 10 - $1,337] Bypassing GCP Org Policy with Custom Metadata* by Kat Traxler
[Sep 06 - $4,133.7] 2 CSRF 1 IDOR on Google Marketing Platform* by Apapedulimu
[Aug 24 - $???] The Nomulus rift* by Imre Rad
[Aug 23 - $???] Hey Google ! - Delete my Data Properly — #GoogleVRP* by Sriram Kesavan
[Jul 13 - $???] Unencrypted HTTP Links to Google Scholar in Search* by David Schütz
[Jul 08 - $0] IDOR on clientauthconfig.googleapis.com* by David Schütz
[Jun 25 - $???] Google Compute Engine (GCE) VM takeover via DHCP flood* by Imre Rad
[Jun 13 - $3,133.7] Privilege escalation on https://dialogflow.cloud.google.com* by lalka
[Jun 09 - $500] Author spoofing in Google Colaboratory* by Zohar Shacha
[May 31 - $10,000] AppCache's forgotten tales* by Luan Herrera
[May 17 - $???] Clickjacking in Nearby Devices Dashboard* by David Schütz
[May 16 - $5,000] Auth Bypass in https://nearbydevices-pa.googleapis.com* by David Schütz
[May 05 - $???] How I Hacked Google App Engine: Anatomy of a Java Bytecode Exploit* by Robert Grosse
[Apr 29 - $???] De-anonymising Anonymous Animals in Google Workspace* by David Schütz
[Apr 21 - $???] IDOR leads to how many likes that was hidden | Youtube* by R Ando
[Apr 20 - $???] Auth Bypass in Google Workspace Real Time Collaboration* by David Schütz
[Apr 13 - $1,337] Google Photos : Theft of Database & Arbitrary Files Android Vulnerability* by Rahul Kankrale
[Apr 09 - $31,337] Explaining the exploit to $31,337 Google Cloud blind SSRF* by Bug Bounty Reports Explained
[Apr 06 - $31,337] $31,337 Google Cloud blind SSRF + HANDS-ON labs* by Bug Bounty Reports Explained
[Apr 05 - $6,000] I Built a TV That Plays All of Your Private YouTube Videos* by David Schütz
[Mar 22 - $5,000] File System Access API - vulnerabilities* by Maciej Pulikowski
[Mar 21 - $???] How I made it to Google HOF?* by Sudhanshu Rajbhar
[Mar 17 - $165,174] Hacking into Google's Network for $133,337* by LiveOverflow
[Mar 11 - $3,133.7] How I Get Blind XSS At Google With Dork (First Bounty and HOF )* by Rio Mulyadi Pulungan
[Mar 08 - $5,000] $5,000 YouTube IDOR* by Bug Bounty Reports Explained
[Jan 31 - $5,000] Hacking YouTube to watch private videos?* by Tech Raj
[Jan 25 - $5,000] This YouTube Backend API Leaks Private Videos* by Hussein Nasser
[Jan 18 - $1,337] The Embedded YouTube Player Told Me What You Were Watching (and more)* by David Schütz
[Jan 11 - $5,000] Stealing Your Private YouTube Videos, One Frame at a Time* by David Schütz
[Jan 08 - $3,133.7] Blind XSS in Google Analytics Admin Panel — $3133.70* by Ashish Dhone
2020:
[Dec 30 - $???] Getting my first Google VRP trophies* by Imre Rad
[Dec 27 - $???] Google VRP Hijacking Google Docs Screenshots* by Sreeram KL
[Dec 22 - $0] SSTI in Google Maps* by Zohar Shacha
[Dec 19 - $0] Google VRP – Sandboxed RCE as root on Apigee API proxies* by Omar Espino
[Nov 12 - $31,337] 31k$ SSRF in Google Cloud Monitoring led to metadata exposure* by David Nechuta
[Oct 27 - $6,337] The YouTube bug that allowed unlisted uploads to any channel* by Ryan Kovatch
[Oct 26 - $0] Deciphering Google’s mysterious ‘batchexecute’ system* by Ryan Kovatch
[Oct 15 - $???] CVE-2020-15157 "ContainerDrip" Write-up* by Brad Geesaman
[Oct 08 - $30,000] The mass CSRFing of *.google.com/* products.* by Missoum Said
[Sep 20 - $500] How I earned $500 from Google - Flaw in Authentication* by Hemant Patidar
[Sep 10 - $15,000] Universal XSS in Android WebView (CVE-2020-6506)* by Alesandro Ortiz
[Sep 08 - $10,000] XSS->Fix->Bypass: 10000$ bounty in Google Maps* by Zohar Shacha
[Aug 26 - $???] Auth bypass: Leaking Google Cloud service accounts and projects* by Ezequiel Pereira
[Aug 25 - $1,337] How I Tracked Your Mother: Tracking Waze drivers using UI elements* by Peter Gasper
[Aug 18 - $???] How to contact Google SRE: Dropping a shell in Cloud SQL* by Ezequiel Pereira
[Aug 18 - $???] Three More Google Cloud Shell Bugs Explained* by David Dworken
[Jul 31 - $4,133.7] Script Gadgets! Google Docs XSS Vulnerability Walkthrough* by LiveOverflow
[Jul 28 - $1,337] Authorization bypass in Google’s ticketing system (Google-GUTS)* by Zohar Shacha
[Jul 17 - $5,000] Idor in google product* by baluz
[Jul 14 - $6,267.4] Hunting postMessage Vulnerabilities* by Gary O'leary-Steele
[Jun 15 - $3,133.7] SMTP Injection in Gsuite* by Zohar Shacha
[Jun 06 - $500] How i earned $500 from google by change one character .* by Oday Alhalbe
[Jun 04 - $???] Privilege Escalation in Google Cloud Platform's OS Login* by Chris Moberly
[Jun 04 - $???] Three Privilege Escalation Bugs in Google Cloud Platform’s OS Login* by initstring
[May 21 - $31,337] RCE in Google Cloud Deployment Manager* by Ezequiel Pereira
[May 08 - $4,133.7] Bypass XSS filter using HTML Escape* by Syahri Ramadan
[May 07 - $3,133.7] DOM-Based XSS at accounts.google.com by Google Voice Extension* by Missoum Said
[May 07 - $???] Google Acquisition XSS (Apigee)* by TnMch
[May 03 - $???] DOM XSS in Gmail with a little help from Chrome* by Enguerran Gillier
[Apr 30 - $6,267.4] Researching Polymorphic Images for XSS on Google Scholar* by Lorenzo Stella
[Mar 27 - $3,133.7] $3133.7 Google Bug Bounty Writeup- XSS Vulnerability!* by Pethuraj M
[Mar 11 - $100,000] $100k Hacking Prize - Security Bugs in Google Cloud Platform* by LiveOverflow
[Mar 10 - $3,133.7] Cookie Tossing to RCE on Google Cloud JupyterLab* by s1r1us
[Mar 08 - $6,000] The unexpected Google wide domain check bypass* by David Schütz
[Mar 07 - $5,000] Google Ads Self-XSS & Html Injection $5000* by Syahri Ramadan
2019:
[Dec 30 - $3,133.7] How did I earn $3133.70 from Google Translator? (XSS)* by Beri Bey
[Dec 19 - $???] SSRF in Google Cloud Platform StackDriver* by Ron Chan
[Dec 16 - $???] 4 Google Cloud Shell bugs explained* by Wouter ter Maat
[Dec 15 - $5,000] The File uploading CSRF in Google Cloud Shell Editor* by Obmi
[Dec 15 - $5,000] The oauth token hijacking in Google Cloud Shell Editor* by Obmi
[Dec 15 - $5,000] The XSS ( type II ) in Google Cloud Shell Editor* by Obmi
[Dec 09 - $???] BlackAlps 2019: Google Bug Hunters* by Eduardo Vela Nava
[Nov 29 - $1,337] Writeup for the 2019 Google Cloud Platform VRP Prize!* by Missoum Said
[Nov 18 - $???] XSS in GMail’s AMP4Email via DOM Clobbering* by Michał Bentkowski
[Oct 01 - $5,000] Google Paid Me to Talk About a Security Issue!* by LiveOverflow
[Sep 09 - $???] Combination of techniques lead to DOM Based XSS in Google* by Sasi Levi
[Aug 31 - $36,337] $36k Google App Engine RCE* by Ezequiel Pereira
[Jul 20 - $13,337] Into the Borg – SSRF inside Google production network* by Enguerran Gillier
[Jul 10 - $???] Gsuite Hangouts Chat 5k IDOR* by Cameron Vincent
[Apr 23 - $???] Best Of Google VRP 2018 | nullcon Goa 2019* by Daniel Stelter-Gliese
[Mar 31 - $???] XSS on Google Search - Sanitizing HTML in The Client?* by LiveOverflow
[Mar 26 - $3,133.7] How I could have hijacked a victim’s YouTube notifications!* by Yash Sodha
[Feb 12 - $???] Hacking YouTube for #fun and #profit* by Alexandru Coltuneac
[Jan 31 - $???] LFI in Apigee portals* by Wouter ter Maat
[Jan 30 - $7,500] $7.5k Google Cloud Platform organization issue* by Ezequiel Pereira
[Jan 18 - $10,000] $10k host header* by Ezequiel Pereira
2018:
[Dec 12 - $???] XSSing Google Code-in thanks to improperly escaped JSON data* by Thomas Orlita
[Dec 11 - $???] Clickjacking DOM XSS on Google.org* by Thomas Orlita
[Dec 05 - $500] Billion Laugh Attack in https://sites.google.com* by Antonio Sanso
[Nov 25 - $???] XSS in Google's Acquisition* by Abartan Dhakal
[Nov 14 - $58,837] Google Cloud Platform vulnerabilities - BugSWAT* by Ezequiel Pereira
[Nov 11 - $7,500] Clickjacking on Google MyAccount Worth 7,500$* by Apapedulimu
[Oct 04 - $???] GoogleMeetRoulette: Joining random meetings* by Martin Vigo
[Sep 05 - $???] Reflected XSS in Google Code Jam* by Thomas Orlita
[May 25 - $???] Waze remote vulnerabilities* by PanguTeam
[Apr 06 - $5,000] Missing access control in Google play store* by Vishwaraj Bhattrai
[Mar 31 - $5,000] $5k Service dependencies* by Ezequiel Pereira
[Mar 28 - $???] Stored XSS on biz.waze.com* by Rojan Rijal
[Mar 07 - $13,337] Stored XSS, and SSRF in Google using the Dataset Publishing Language* by Craig Arendt
[Feb 24 - $13,337] Bypassing Google’s authentication to access their Internal Admin panels* by Vishnu Prasad P G
[Feb 19 - $???] Google bugs stories and the shiny pixelbook* by Missoum Said
[Feb 14 - $7,500] $7.5k Google services mix-up* by Ezequiel Pereira
2017:
[Oct 30 - $15,600] How I hacked Google’s bug tracking system itself for $15,600 in bounties* by Alex Birsan
[Mar 09 - $5,000] How I found a $5,000 Google Maps XSS (by fiddling with Protobuf)* by Marin Moulinier
[Mar 01 - $???] Ok Google, Give Me All Your Internal DNS Information!* by Julien Ahrens
[Feb 26 - $3,133.7] Exploiting Clickjacking Vulnerability To Steal User Cookies* by Jasminder Pal Singh
[Jan 04 - $???] fastboot oem sha1sum* by Roee Hay
2016:
[Nov 29 - $???] War Stories from Google’s Vulnerability Reward Program* by Gábor Molnár
[Oct 09 - $6,000] How I got 6000$ from #Google (Google Cloudshell RCE)* by Pranav Venkat
[Aug 26 - $500] $500 getClass* by Ezequiel Pereira
[Feb 28 - $???] Stored, Reflected and DOM XSS in Google for Work Connect (GWC)* by Ashar Javed
2015:
[Dec 08 - $???] Creative bug which result Stored XSS on m.youtube.com* by Sasi Levi
[Oct 29 - $???] XSS in YouTube Gaming* by Ashar Javed
[Jun 26 - $3,133.7] Youtube Editor XSS Vulnerability* by Jasminder Pal Singh
2014:
[Oct 31 - $5,000] The 5000$ Google XSS* by Patrik Fehrenbach
[Oct 26 - $1,337] Youtube XSS Vulnerability (Stored -> Self Executed)* by Jasminder Pal Singh
[Aug 13 - $???] I hate you, so I pawn your Google Open Gallery* by Ahmad Ashraff
[Jan 10 - $???] Again, from Nay to Yay in Google Vulnerability Reward Program!* by Ahmad Ashraff
2013:
[Sep 15 - $3,133.7] XSRF and Cookie manipulation on google.com* by Michele Spagnuolo
[Jul 08 - $???] Stored XSS in GMail* by Michele Spagnuolo
Unknown Date:
[??? - $5,000] Google VRP : oAuth token stealing* by Harsh Jaiswal
[??? - $???] Unauth meetings access* by Rojan Rijal
[??? - $???] CSWSH vulnerability in Google Cloud Shell’s code editor* by Psi
[??? - $3,133.7] Open redirects that matter* by Tomasz Bojarski
[??? - $???] Blind XSS against a Googler* by Rojan Rijal
[??? - $???] Multiple XSSs on hire.withgoogle.com* by Rojan Rijal
[??? - $???] Auth Issues on hire.withgoogle.com* by Rojan Rijal
[??? - $???] G Suite - Device Management XSS* by Rojan Rijal
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