Tesla just made an important contribution to the Bitcoin open-source software.
The company disclosed a bug in the open-source Bitcoin payment processor and wallet BTCPay Server and then went on to help the project fix the flaw.
Tesla informed BTCPay’s team of the bug during the previous week.
“The security team did an audit and contacted us … we then focused on fixing most of the points they disclosed one by one. They are now helping us to improve our process for security-related disclosure,” revealed BTCPay founder Nicolas Dorier.
BTCPay disclosed in a GitHub post that follow-up information regarding the bug would be revealed in the next major release of BTCPay.
“We want to thank @teslamotors for filing a responsible disclosure, helping us with remediation, and handling the situation professionally. We also want to thank Qaiser Abbas, an independent web-security researcher, for an additional responsible vulnerability disclosure that was handled in this release,” wrote BTCPay’s team.
BTCPay Server was released in 2017 by Nicola Dorier, a Bitcoin developer. Since then, BTCPay has been used as a portal for donations around the globe, including Venezuela and Nigeria.