NASA VDP is triaged by Bugcrowd team before handing it over to NASA officials for confirmation. I noticed that Bugcrowd's bot such as teapot_bugcrowd tends to mark report submissions as N/A. This was the case with my accepted report that earned me the NASA's LoR. I submitted a report in December 2024, but Bugcrowd's bot triaged it as N/A. Only in June 2025 did Bugcrowd's human triagers receive similar reports from other hackers, and they traced my report to be the first submission of its kind and marked my report as Accepted. The NASA VDP accepts only unique, non-duplicate reports that demonstrate a real security impact. However, my main critique of this program is related to a vulnerability I discovered. My report was closed as a duplicate of one submitted by another hacker over a year ago. Despite this long timeline, the affected endpoint remains completely unpatched, which I believe will cause more hackers to waste time and effort.

As the tittle says, I had three. SSRF reports go to NASA's VPR before they were all closed as informative under P5. Which, while unfortunate, had the reports triaged in under 2 days. Which is always a quality I as a research greatly appreciate from programs and vendors.