Submission Trends

The Submissions Received section on the Insights dashboard provides a comprehensive understanding of the submission trends in your program. It helps to identify actionable submissions that are currently in the open state.

Timeline View Of Submissions Received Based On Severity

The Submissions received section provides a timeline view (impact levels) of valid submissions received based on technical severity.

Insights Submissions By Severity

Hover over a single column on the graph to view the number of valid submissions for a specific time period.

Insights Submissions By Severity Hover

Timeline View Of Total Submissions Received Over Time

In the Submissions Received section, click Volume to view the total number of submissions received for a given time period for a program. You can identify trends and spikes in submissions associated with program adjustments such as new code releases, broadening the scope, increasing the reward range, PR announcements, or incentive programs.

Insights Submissions Received By Volume

Hover over a single column on the graph to view the total number of submissions for the specific period.

Insights Submissions By Volume Hover

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Total Submissions Received

Submissions received represents the total number of submissions your program has received for a given time period. It includes valid and non-valid (informational, out of scope, not reproducible, and not applicable) submissions. However, it does not include duplicate submissions.

Insights Submissions Received

Open Vulnerabilities

Open vulnerabilities represent the total number of vulnerabilities in the Open state from the filtered time period. These are actionable submissions in the Triaged or Unresolved state that must be addressed by your team. Quickly addressing these submissions will improve your program performance.

Insights Open Vulnerabilities

Fixed Vulnerabilities

Fixed vulnerabilities represent the total number of vulnerabilities fixed from the filtered time period.

Insights Fixed Vulnerabilities

Target Breakdown

The Target breakdown section provides a snapshot view of the total number of submissions received on a target over a specific time period. You can identify targets that:

  • Receive the highest and lowest number of vulnerabilities
  • Are most and least secure

Insights Target Breakdown

Submission Type and Severity

The Submission type and severity section provides a view of the total number of valid vulnerabilities submitted for your program based on the vulnerability type. These vulnerability types represent the top level categories based on Vulnerability Rating Taxonomy (VRT). The table lists the most common vulnerabilities found in your targets. You can send this information to your development team for improving the application security.

The Technical severity graph provides a view of the most common submissions received by technical severity over a specific period of time.

Submission type and severity


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