The thing is, "somewhere in the backend" is generally accessible from the internet, and vulnerable to attackers (so you need only a maliciously crafted packet, or something similar); whereas for 7-zip vulnerability, there must be: a) a maliciously crafted zip file, b) a user who wilfully opens it.
What's more, getting into one's backend servers/gaining some kind of access to DB, config files of the machine, etc. is, in my mind, just infinitely worse than gaining access to a computer of a person/uploading some ransomware/something similar.
We're just probably working with different SW, so we both see the thing that touches us the most as the problem... :))
> The thing is, "somewhere in the backend" is generally accessible from the internet
If this is the case you have much bigger problems that a bug bounty won't fix.
> in my mind, just infinitely worse than gaining access to a computer of a person/uploading some ransomware/something similar
That depends heavily on what the backend server is. There are plenty of databases where a hack is irrelevant because the data is public and there are backups. Meanwhile most people have poor backups and a hack can be incredibly damaging.
>we both see the thing that touches us the most as the problem
I think you're heavily discounting the risk that all these code bases in general usage pose. I've fuzzed C++ binary parsing code on just a laptop and was amazed at how many crashing bugs I was able to find in a short amount of time. Many of those were probably easily exploitable.
Gov agencies do accept zip files from general population. Send them something, they'll have to open it to respond to your request... Bam, you broke into a PC with sensitive system inside of a gov network.
What's more, getting into one's backend servers/gaining some kind of access to DB, config files of the machine, etc. is, in my mind, just infinitely worse than gaining access to a computer of a person/uploading some ransomware/something similar.
We're just probably working with different SW, so we both see the thing that touches us the most as the problem... :))