←back to thread

Escaping the Chrome Sandbox Through DevTools

(ading.dev)
406 points vk6 | 1 comments | 17 Oct 24 05:55 UTC | HN request time: 0.205s | source
Show context
Etheryte ◴[17 Oct 24 07:57 UTC] No.41867389[source]▶
Given the severity, I can't help but feel that this is underpaid at the scale Google is at. Chrome is so ubiquitous and vulnerabilities like these could hit hard. Last thing they need to do is to send the signal that it's better to sell these on the black market.
replies(9): >>41867499 #>>41867548 #>>41867653 #>>41867666 #>>41867873 #>>41868146 #>>41868628 #>>41868995 #>>41869073 #
thrdbndndn ◴[17 Oct 24 08:29 UTC] No.41867548[source]▶
I hate that every time a vulnerability is posted, someone has to argue about whether the bounty is high enough. It’s always followed by, "blah blah, they're pushing whitehats to sell it on the black market."

Vulnerabilities will always sell for more on the black market because there’s an added cost for asking people to do immoral and likely illegal things. Comparing the two is meaningless.

To give a straightforward answer: no, I don’t think $20k is underpaid. The severity of a bug isn't based on how it could theoretically affect people but on how it actually does. There's no evidence this is even in the wild, and based on the description, it seems complicated to exploit for attacks.

replies(2): >>41867627 #>>41867954 #
n2d4 ◴[17 Oct 24 08:46 UTC] No.41867627[source]▶
> The severity of a bug isn't based on how it could theoretically affect people but on how it actually does

No, it's priced on demand and supply like anything else; bug bounties are priced to be the amount that Google thinks it takes to incentivise hunters to sell it to them, vs. to black hats.

replies(7): >>41867670 #>>41867692 #>>41867853 #>>41868419 #>>41868768 #>>41868849 #>>41869671 #
1. magic_hamster ◴[17 Oct 24 13:51 UTC] No.41869671[source]▶
There's a clear cut between selling it to Google and selling it to black hats. White hats mostly have a career in cyber security and they will not disclose a vulnerability to a compromised party regardless of the price. Cyber security researchers will like having their name attached to a CVE or a fix in a well known open source project which is arguably worth more than 20K to them. If someone finds out you sold a vulnerability, or exploit, to a hostile party, your career is over.