Connectors / Integration
Automate Security Vulnerability Management by Integrating HackerOne with GitHub
Connect your bug bounty program to your development workflow so security findings get fixed faster and your code ships safer.
HackerOne + GitHub integration
HackerOne is the world's leading bug bounty and vulnerability disclosure platform. GitHub is where development teams manage their code, issues, and pull requests. Together, they close the gap between security researchers and the engineers who fix what they find. Without an integration, the handoff between the two is manual, slow, and full of opportunities for findings to get lost.
Security teams using HackerOne get a constant stream of vulnerability reports, but turning those findings into engineering work means manual data entry, status updates, and follow-ups across disconnected tools. Connect HackerOne to GitHub and every validated vulnerability can automatically become a tracked GitHub Issue or get linked to a repository milestone — no finding gets dropped. Engineers stay in GitHub, where they already work, while security teams keep full visibility in HackerOne. When a developer closes an issue or merges a fix, HackerOne updates automatically. Less back-and-forth, faster mean time to remediation, and a cleaner audit trail that satisfies both productivity and compliance requirements.
Automate & integrate HackerOne + GitHub
Automating HackerOne and GitHub business processes or integrating data is made easy with Tray.ai.
Use case
Auto-Create GitHub Issues from HackerOne Reports
When a vulnerability report on HackerOne is triaged and validated, automatically create a corresponding GitHub Issue in the relevant repository with full context, severity, and reproduction steps. No more manual copy-paste between security and engineering. Developers can start remediation immediately, without waiting for a security team member to file a ticket.
- Eliminates manual ticket creation and cuts handoff time from hours to seconds
- Every validated finding is traceable in the engineering workflow
- GitHub Issues arrive pre-populated with HackerOne severity, CVSS score, and researcher notes
Use case
Sync HackerOne Report Status from GitHub Issue State
When a developer closes a GitHub Issue tied to a HackerOne report, automatically update the report status in HackerOne to 'Resolved' or the appropriate stage. Developers never need to log into HackerOne. The sync also triggers disclosure timelines and researcher reward notifications on the HackerOne side.
- Cuts manual status update work for security operations teams
- Researcher payouts move faster because reward workflows fire on resolution
- Produces a consistent, auditable timeline of remediation activity
Use case
Escalate Critical Vulnerabilities to GitHub Projects
When a HackerOne report comes in as Critical or High severity, automatically add the corresponding GitHub Issue to a designated security sprint or GitHub Project board. The most dangerous findings are immediately visible to engineering leads and land in the next sprint cycle. Teams can set severity thresholds to control what triggers escalation.
- High-severity vulnerabilities enter the engineering backlog without delay
- Engineering managers get real-time visibility into critical security work
- High-impact findings don't get buried in an unmonitored queue
Use case
Link HackerOne CVE Disclosures to GitHub Security Advisories
When a HackerOne vulnerability is confirmed and a CVE is assigned, automatically draft or publish a corresponding GitHub Security Advisory in the affected repository. Open-source maintainers stay compliant with coordinated disclosure norms, and downstream dependents get notified through GitHub's advisory ecosystem. Advisory content stays consistent with the original HackerOne report.
- CVE disclosure workflows move faster for open-source and enterprise projects alike
- GitHub Security Advisories are created promptly and accurately
- Consistent disclosure documentation reduces compliance risk
Use case
Notify Development Teams via GitHub Commits and PR Comments
When a HackerOne report references a specific code area or component, automatically post a comment on related open pull requests or recent commits to alert developers of the active vulnerability. The finding surfaces exactly where code changes are happening, so developers can address it before anything merges to production.
- Security context appears directly inside developer workflows in GitHub
- Vulnerable code patterns don't get merged while a report is open
- Less friction in cross-tool communication between security and dev teams
Use case
Track Remediation SLAs Using GitHub Milestone Deadlines
When a report is triaged, automatically create GitHub Milestones with due dates based on HackerOne's severity SLA policies. Issues linked to a vulnerability get added to the milestone, giving engineering managers a clear deadline view. When a milestone is missed, a re-escalation workflow fires back in HackerOne to flag the overdue report.
- SLA deadlines are visible inside GitHub, where engineers actually work
- Overdue vulnerabilities escalate automatically, no manual monitoring needed
- An auditable SLA record is available for compliance and security reviews
Challenges Tray.ai solves
Common obstacles when integrating HackerOne and GitHub — and how Tray.ai handles them.
Challenge
Maintaining Bidirectional Status Sync Without Duplication
Keeping HackerOne report states and GitHub Issue statuses in sync is genuinely tricky. Updates on either side can trigger redundant loops, duplicate comments, or conflicting status changes if the integration isn't carefully orchestrated.
How Tray.ai helps
Tray.ai's workflow logic lets teams add conditional checks and idempotency guards so status updates only propagate when something actually changed. Loop prevention is built directly into the workflow using state-awareness conditions, not bolted on afterward.
Challenge
Mapping Severity Schemas Between Platforms
HackerOne uses CVSS scores and its own severity taxonomy (Critical, High, Medium, Low). GitHub uses free-form labels and priority systems. Translating between them without losing nuance requires careful field mapping, and that mapping can break whenever either platform updates its schema.
How Tray.ai helps
Tray.ai's data mapping and transformation tools let teams define explicit severity translation logic with version-controlled workflow configurations. When platforms change, updating the mapping is straightforward, and label application stays consistent across GitHub repositories.
Challenge
Routing Reports to the Correct GitHub Repository
Large engineering organizations can have hundreds of GitHub repositories. A HackerOne report needs to reach the right one based on the affected component, asset, or team. Getting this wrong manually is error-prone and slows down remediation.
How Tray.ai helps
Tray.ai supports dynamic routing logic that reads HackerOne report metadata — affected asset, program tags, component keywords — and matches it against a lookup table of repository names. Each issue lands in the right place automatically.
Templates
Pre-built workflows for HackerOne and GitHub you can deploy in minutes.
HackerOne Validated Report to GitHub Issue
HackerOne 
GitHub Automatically creates a detailed GitHub Issue whenever a HackerOne vulnerability report moves to 'Triaged', mapping severity, CVSS score, and reproduction steps from the report into the issue body and labels.
GitHub Issue Closed to HackerOne Report Resolution
GitHub HackerOne Monitors GitHub for Issues tagged with a HackerOne report ID and, when closed, automatically updates the linked HackerOne report to 'Resolved', adds a resolution comment, and triggers the bounty payout workflow.
Critical Severity HackerOne Report to GitHub Project Escalation
HackerOne GitHub When a HackerOne report is rated Critical or High, instantly creates a GitHub Issue and adds it to a designated security GitHub Project board column, notifying the on-call security engineer via a GitHub assignment.
HackerOne CVE to GitHub Security Advisory Draft
HackerOne GitHub When a CVE is assigned to a HackerOne vulnerability, automatically creates a draft GitHub Security Advisory in the affected repository, pre-populated with the vulnerability description, affected versions, and CVE identifier.
Scheduled HackerOne Metrics Report Committed to GitHub
HackerOne GitHub Runs weekly to fetch HackerOne program statistics — open reports, average MTTR, bounty spend — and commits a formatted markdown summary to a designated GitHub repository for stakeholder review.
New HackerOne Program Invitation Synced to GitHub Team Access
HackerOne GitHub When a new researcher is formally added to a private HackerOne program, automatically grants them read access to a designated GitHub repository containing program-specific scope documentation, integration test environments, or security tooling.
How Tray.ai makes this work
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