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  • Jul 25, 2026, 8:37 PM

    @simon Thank you!

    Re the new boundary question: The issue is that in-the-wild attacks are able to construct exploit chains that first compromise the content process using JavaScript engine bugs and next escalate privileges by either

    - using a bug in the browser host process' communication interface, where a missing check allows a compromised content process (which is generally quite locked down) to compromise the host process (which has little/no restrictions) merely by passing it a bad message

    - using a bug in the OS kernel/drivers to directly get root

    Here is one of many examples i quickly looked up from google project zero

    googleprojectzero.github.io/0d

    The easiest way to cut this is of is at step 1, i.e., isolate the effect of JavaScript engine bugs, so that step 2 is not possible

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