Researcher Reveals How Logic Bugs Alone Cracked Microsoft Edge in $175,000 Pwn2Own Win

Researcher Reveals How Logic Bugs Alone Cracked Microsoft Edge in $175,000 Pwn2Own Win


A chain of logic flaws, with no memory corruption, can turn a malicious web page into code running on a Windows computer outside Microsoft Edge’s sandbox, a security researcher has shown.

Orange Tsai of DEVCORE published the full method on October 28, five months after the chain won $175,000 at the Pwn2Own Berlin contest in May. Microsoft fixed the Edge bugs the day after the contest,

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