Playbook Bug Bounty Pre Submission Review

Bug Bounty Pre-Submission Review

Objective

Apply a final review to an external report candidate before submission.

Inputs

• pre-submission decision artifact
• evidence summary
• draft report if GO
• program context and exclusions

SMEs involved

Typically chief-of-staff, the originating analysis SME, and security-qa.

Flow

1. confirm GO
2. review claim scope against program rules
3. check report clarity and evidence chain
4. run QA
5. package for submission

Gates

• no draft before GO
• no unsupported impact narrative
• QA pass required

Outputs

• ready-to-submit draft
• blocked draft with corrections
• fallback research plan if needed

Limitations

Program-specific business rules may still require human judgment.

Sanitized example

Downgrade a plausible report because the evidence supports a weak observation, not a qualifying security impact.