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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.

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"Researcher Reveals How Logic Bugs Alone Cracked Microsoft Edge in $175,000 Pwn2Own Win." KEVWire, 28 Oct. 2026, kevwire.com/record/thehackernews-researcher-reveals-how-logic-bugs-alone-4abc2dcf4334.

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Researcher Reveals How Logic Bugs Alone Cracked Microsoft Edge in $175,000 Pwn2Own Win (Oct 28, 2026).
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.
Sources:
The Hacker News: Researcher Reveals How Logic Bugs Alone Cracked Microsoft Edge in $175,000 Pwn2Own Win: https://thehackernews.com/2026/10/researcher-reveals-how-logic-bugs-alone.html
The Hacker News syndication feed: https://feeds.feedburner.com/TheHackersNews
Record ID: thehackernews-researcher-reveals-how-logic-bugs-alone-4abc2dcf4334.
Record origin: Ingested record.
AI evidence: Not assessed.
Known exploitation: Not assessed.
Zero-day status: Not assessed. KEV membership alone does not establish zero-day status.
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