In this special blog series, ZDI Vulnerability Researcher Hossein Lotfi looks at the exploitation of V8 – Google’s open-source high-performance JavaScript and WebAssembly engine – through the lens of a bug used during Pwn2Own Vancouver 2021. The contest submission from Bruno Keith and Niklas Baumstark exploited both Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge (Chromium) with the same bug, which earned them $100,000 during the event. This bug was subsequently found in the wild prior to being patched by Google. This blog series provides an introduction to V8, a look at the root cause of the bug, and details on exploitation during the contest and beyond.
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Source: Zero Day Initiative