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Jito - BAM Client

The BAM Client extends the Jito-Solana client to interface with external schedulers (BAM Nodes) that run inside Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) via gRPC, receiving pre-sequenced transaction bundles and executing them in FIFO order with respect to account locks. This design maintains network security while enabling sophisticated transaction ordering strategies.

Solana
Defi
Validator
Rust
Maximum Bounty
$100,000
Live Since
22 October 2025
Last Updated
23 October 2025
  • PoC Required

  • KYC required

  • Arbitration enabled

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Assets in Scope

Target
Type
Blockchain/DLT - BAM Validator Client
Added on
22 October 2025
Target
Type
Blockchain/DLT - BAM Proto Definitions
Added on
22 October 2025

Impacts in Scope

Severity
Critical
Title

Network not being able to confirm new transactions (total network shutdown)

Severity
Critical
Title

Unintended permanent chain split requiring hard fork (network partition requiring hard fork)

Severity
Critical
Title

Direct loss of funds

Severity
Critical
Title

Permanent freezing of funds (fix requires hardfork)

Severity
High
Title

Unintended chain split (network partition)

Severity
High
Title

Temporary freezing of network transactions by delaying one block by 500% or more of the average block time of the preceding 24 hours beyond standard difficulty adjustments

Severity
High
Title

Causing network processing nodes to process transactions from the mempool beyond set parameters

Severity
High
Title

RPC API crash affecting programs with greater than or equal to 25% of the market capitalization on top of the respective layer

Severity
Medium
Title

Increasing network processing node resource consumption by at least 30% without brute force actions, compared to the preceding 24 hours

Severity
Medium
Title

Shutdown of greater than or equal to 30% of network processing nodes without brute force actions, but does not shut down the network

Severity
Medium
Title

A bug in the respective layer 0/1/2 network code that results in unintended smart contract behavior with no concrete funds at direct risk

Severity
Low
Title

Shutdown of greater than 10% or equal to but less than 30% of network processing nodes without brute force actions, but does not shut down the network

Out of scope

Program's Out of Scope information

Bounties apply only to vulnerabilities discovered in the listed repositories and code maintained by Jito Labs/Jito Foundation. This project is a fork of https://github.com/anza-xyz/agave; vulnerabilities that are present only in the upstream project and are not introduced or affected by the BAM Client fork are out of scope for rewards under this Bug Bounty Program. If a reported issue exists both in the BAM client fork and upstream, and we can verify it affects the BAM client, it may be eligible for bounty consideration. Please provide evidence that the issue is present in this repo (see “Proof of concept” requirements). Reports that describe issues that were already fixed upstream before the reporter submitted them to this repository are out of scope. If the issue existed upstream but you reported it to us before the upstream patch and it still affects the BAM Client fork, provide timestamps and evidence for consideration.

Default Out of Scope and rules

Blockchain/DLT specific

  • Incorrect data supplied by third party oracles
    • Not to exclude oracle manipulation/flash loan attacks
  • Impacts requiring basic economic and governance attacks (e.g. 51% attack)
  • Lack of liquidity impacts
  • Impacts from Sybil attacks
  • Impacts involving centralization risks

All categories

  • Impacts requiring attacks that the reporter has already exploited themselves, leading to damage
  • Impacts caused by attacks requiring access to leaked keys/credentials
  • Impacts caused by attacks requiring access to privileged addresses (including, but not limited to: governance and strategist contracts) without additional modifications to the privileges attributed
  • Impacts relying on attacks involving the depegging of an external stablecoin where the attacker does not directly cause the depegging due to a bug in code
  • Mentions of secrets, access tokens, API keys, private keys, etc. in Github will be considered out of scope without proof that they are in-use in production
  • Best practice recommendations
  • Feature requests
  • Impacts on test files and configuration files unless stated otherwise in the bug bounty program
  • Impacts requiring phishing or other social engineering attacks against project's employees and/or customers