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

The Hacker News·October 28, 2026·1 min read
Researcher Reveals How Logic Bugs Alone Cracked Microsoft Edge in $175,000 Pwn2Own Win

Researcher Orange Tsai of DEVCORE published a method on October 28 showing how logic bugs alone, without memory corruption, can escape Microsoft Edge's sandbox and run code on Windows. The chain won $175,000 at Pwn2Own Berlin in May. Microsoft fixed the Edge bugs the day after the contest, but the full disclosure now enables further research.

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