The EU has announced a nice amount of funding for 14 open-source projects as part of the 3rd FOSSA,
The 14 projects that they have listed, in a tidy alphabetical order are - 7-zip, Apache Kafka, Apache Tomcat, Digital Signature Services (DSS), Drupal, Filezilla, FLUX TL, the GNU C Library (glibc), KeePass, midPoint, Notepad++, PuTTY, the Symfony PHP framework, VLC Media Player, and WSO2,
These applications build on the previous 2 FOSSA events adding a huge selection of open source applications for audit, if you haven’t heard of some of these they are well worth checking out!
FOSSA returns for its third edition with budgets for 14 bug bounty programs, with the highest budgets being reserved for PuTTY and the Drupal CMS.
Software Project
Bug Bounty Amount (Euro)
Start Date
End Date
Bug Bounty Platform
58.000,00 €
07/01/2019
15/08/2019
58.000,00 €
07/01/2019
15/08/2019
71.000,00 €
07/01/2019
15/08/2019
90.000,00 €
07/01/2019
15/12/2019
58.000,00 €
07/01/2019
15/08/2019
34.000,00 €
15/01/2019
15/10/2019
71.000,00 €
15/01/2019
31/07/2019
58.000,00 €
30/01/2019
15/04/2020
Digital Signature Services (DSS)
25.000,00 €
30/01/2019
15/10/2019
89.000,00 €
30/01/2019
15/10/2020
45.000,00 €
30/01/2019
15/12/2019
39.000,00 €
30/01/2019
15/10/2019
39.000,00 €
30/01/2019
15/10/2019
58.000,00 €
30/01/2019
15/04/2020
58.000,00 €
01/03/2019
15/08/2019
Starting with January, security researchers and security companies can hunt vulnerabilities in these open source projects and report them to the bug bounty programs linked above, in the hopes of a monetary reward, if the bug report is approved and results in a patch.