Cognizant Technology Vulnerability Disclosure

generated: '2026-09-05'
method: searched
source: https://hackerone.com/cognizant
note: >-
  Cognizant runs TWO distinct, independently verified disclosure channels — a corporate-wide
  HackerOne Vulnerability Disclosure Program, and a separate project-level security policy for
  the Cognizant AI Lab open-source repositories. Both are recorded because they route to
  different teams and an agent (or a researcher) needs to pick the right one.
  Verified with a control probe: hackerone.com/cognizant returned HTTP 200 with a real program
  profile photo and og:title "Cognizant - Vulnerability Disclosure Program | HackerOne", while
  a deliberately nonexistent handle (hackerone.com/cognizant-nonexistent-zzz9) returned 404
  with no profile photo. The 200 is a live program, not a platform catch-all.
programs:
- name: Cognizant Vulnerability Disclosure Program
  type: vulnerability-disclosure-program
  platform: hackerone
  url: https://hackerone.com/cognizant
  scope: corporate
  bounty: false
  bounty_note: >-
    Listed by HackerOne as a Vulnerability Disclosure Program rather than a Bug Bounty
    Program. No award amounts were published on the public program page; recorded as
    no-bounty rather than assumed.
  evidence:
    url: https://hackerone.com/cognizant
    http_status: 200
    og_title: 'Cognizant - Vulnerability Disclosure Program | HackerOne'
    control_probe:
      url: https://hackerone.com/cognizant-nonexistent-zzz9
      http_status: 404
    fetched: '2026-09-05'
  page_note: >-
    The program page is a JavaScript-rendered single-page app; program policy text and scope
    tables are not present in the served HTML. Presence and identity were established from
    the server-rendered OpenGraph metadata, not from the SPA body.
- name: Cognizant AI Lab open-source security policy
  type: security-policy
  platform: github
  url: https://github.com/cognizant-ai-lab/neuro-san/blob/main/SECURITY.md
  scope: cognizant-ai-lab repositories (neuro-san and siblings)
  contact: labgithub@cognizant.com
  channel: email
  public_issues_prohibited: true
  acknowledgement_sla: 48 hours
  disclosure_model: coordinated — public disclosure after a fix is released
  supported_versions:
    latest: supported
    older: unsupported
    detail: >-
      The policy supports only the latest release and explicitly marks anything below it
      unsupported. This is also the closest thing the project publishes to a version support
      policy — see lifecycle/cognizant-technology-lifecycle.yml.
  evidence:
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cognizant-ai-lab/neuro-san/main/SECURITY.md
    http_status: 200
    fetched: '2026-09-05'
security_txt:
  served: false
  detail: >-
    /.well-known/security.txt returned 404 on both cognizant.com and www.cognizant.com. Neither
    disclosure channel above is discoverable from the domain root, which is the one gap worth
    reporting back to the provider: an RFC 9116 security.txt pointing at the HackerOne program
    would make an existing, working program machine-discoverable at zero cost.