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Who has the most advisory credits — across Apple, Microsoft, Jenkins, Drupal, and every other vendor whose security releases we index. Derived from 500 credit lines on published advisories.

500 researchers
#51
Valdes Che Zogou, CloudBees, Inc.
34 credits 30 CVEs Jun 2022 → Aug 2023
30 CVE 4 other
34
credits
#52
Hyunwoo Kim (@v4bel)
33 credits 8 CVEs Jun 2026 → Sep 2026
33 CVE
33
credits
#53
Ashish Kunwar
33 credits 7 CVEs 2 vendors May 2026 → Sep 2026
25 CVE 7 recognition 1 other
33
credits
#54
xiaozun tang
33 credits 33 CVEs Jul 2026 → Sep 2026
33 CVE
33
credits
#55
NVIDIA Offensive Security Research (OSR) team
33 credits 33 CVEs
33 CVE
33
credits
#56
Minwoo Jeong (P1nkjelly) with KAIST Hacking Lab
32 credits 26 CVEs May 2026 → Sep 2026
26 CVE 6 other
32
credits
#57
Jonghoi Kim
31 credits 24 CVEs Jun 2026 → Sep 2026
24 CVE 7 other
31
credits
#58
Kyeongmin Kim (@hareh4ru) with KAIST Hacking Lab
31 credits 30 CVEs Jun 2026 → Sep 2026
30 CVE 1 other
31
credits
#59
이재영
30 credits 8 CVEs Jul 2026 → Sep 2026
30 CVE
30
credits
#60
Ruslan Dautov
30 credits 6 CVEs May 2026 → Sep 2026
28 CVE 2 recognition
30
credits
#61
Kentaro Kawane with GMO Cybersecurity by Ierae, Inc.
30 credits 27 CVEs May 2026 → Sep 2026
27 CVE 3 other
30
credits
#62
Vitaly Simonovich
30 credits 5 CVEs 2 vendors May 2026 → Sep 2026
17 CVE 13 recognition
30
credits
#63
John Lussier
29 credits 3 CVEs Jun 2026 → Sep 2026
18 CVE 11 recognition
29
credits
#64
Navtej Kathuria
29 credits 29 CVEs
29 CVE
29
credits
#65
Sindre Sorhus
29 credits 9 CVEs Jul 2026 → Sep 2026
29 CVE
29
credits
#66
Bruce Dang of Calif.io in collaboration with Claude and Anthropic Research
29 credits 8 CVEs Jul 2026 → Sep 2026
28 CVE 1 recognition
29
credits
#67
Linzishan
28 credits 27 CVEs Jun 2026 → Sep 2026
27 CVE 1 other
28
credits
#68
Donghyeon Oh with Patchpoint
28 credits 22 CVEs Jun 2026 → Jul 2026
22 CVE 6 other
28
credits
#69
Anemone
28 credits 26 CVEs Jun 2026 → Sep 2026
26 CVE 2 other
28
credits
#70
Hiroki Imai (LAC Co., Ltd.)
27 credits 4 CVEs Jul 2026 → Sep 2026
24 CVE 3 recognition
27
credits
#71
Hwiwon Lee (hwiwonl) with UIUC
27 credits 16 CVEs 2 vendors May 2026 → Sep 2026
20 CVE 7 other
27
credits
#72
DongJun Kim (smlijun) with UIUC
27 credits 15 CVEs 2 vendors May 2026 → Sep 2026
19 CVE 8 other
27
credits
#73
Song Nuri
27 credits 4 CVEs Jun 2026 → Sep 2026
22 CVE 5 recognition
27
credits
#74
Dhiyanesh Selvaraj (@redroot97)
27 credits 5 CVEs May 2026 → Sep 2026
25 CVE 2 recognition
27
credits
#75
Meta Red Team X - Nik Tsytsarkin
27 credits 5 CVEs Aug 2026 → Sep 2026
23 CVE 4 recognition
27
credits
#76
h4urek with secsys lab
27 credits 23 CVEs May 2026 → Sep 2026
23 CVE 4 other
27
credits
#77
Gia Bui (@yabeow) from Calif.io
26 credits 5 CVEs May 2026 → Aug 2026
26 CVE
26
credits
#78
Frédéric Perriot of the Apple Media Products RedTeam
26 credits 26 CVEs
26 CVE
26
credits
#79
User:SomeRandomDeveloper
26 credits 26 CVEs
26 CVE
26
credits
#80
joaxcar
25 credits 25 CVEs Jun 2025 → Sep 2026
25 CVE
25
credits
#81
P1hcn
25 credits 24 CVEs May 2026 → Sep 2026
24 CVE 1 other
25
credits
#82
Ryan Hileman via Xint Code (xint.io)
25 credits 5 CVEs May 2026 → Sep 2026
22 CVE 3 recognition
25
credits
#83
dyingman1 (https://github.com/dyingman1, redpoc Offensive Security Team)
25 credits 24 CVEs Apr 2026 → Sep 2026
24 CVE 1 other
25
credits
#84
Chris Bailey - Short Circuit
25 credits 5 CVEs Sep 2026 → Sep 2026
20 CVE 5 recognition
25
credits
#85
Lyutoon
24 credits 3 CVEs Jun 2026 → Sep 2026
19 CVE 5 recognition
24
credits
#86
Faisal Tameesh
24 credits 24 CVEs
24 CVE
24
credits
#87
Niels Hofmans
24 credits 6 CVEs May 2026 → Sep 2026
20 CVE 4 recognition
24
credits
#88
Jongseong Kim (nevul37) with UIUC
24 credits 14 CVEs 2 vendors May 2026 → Sep 2026
18 CVE 6 other
24
credits
#89
Kwak Kiyong
24 credits 3 CVEs Jun 2026 → Aug 2026
19 CVE 5 recognition
24
credits
#90
Henock Habte
23 credits 1 CVE Jun 2026 → Sep 2026
7 CVE 16 recognition
23
credits
#91
Milad Nasr
23 credits 3 CVEs May 2026 → Sep 2026
16 CVE 7 recognition
23
credits
#92
Roman Zabicki
23 credits 4 CVEs Sep 2026 → Sep 2026
18 CVE 5 recognition
23
credits
#93
Anthropic
23 credits 3 CVEs May 2026 → Sep 2026
16 CVE 7 recognition
23
credits
#94
Nicholas Carlini with Claude
23 credits 3 CVEs May 2026 → Sep 2026
16 CVE 7 recognition
23
credits
#95
Narendra Singh (@_3P1C)
23 credits 6 CVEs Jun 2026 → Sep 2026
23 CVE
23
credits
#96
Lee Rowlands of the Drupal Security Team
22 credits 18 CVEs Feb 2022 → Nov 2024
22
credits
#97
Michael DePlante (@izobashi) of TrendAI Zero Day Initiative
22 credits 5 CVEs May 2026 → Aug 2026
22 CVE
22
credits
#98
Dave G.
22 credits 10 CVEs May 2026 → Sep 2026
22 CVE
22
credits
#99
Cem Onat Karagun
22 credits 3 CVEs May 2026 → Sep 2026
12 CVE 10 recognition
22
credits
#100
Zhiniang Peng (HUST)
22 credits 22 CVEs Jun 2026 → Sep 2026
22 CVE
22
credits