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ESCAPING THE CHROME SANDBOX THROUGH DEVTOOLS

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Vulnerabilities in Chromium allowed malicious Chrome extensions to execute arbitrary shell commands. By exploiting undocumented features in the chrome://policy page and a race condition in the chrome.devtools API, users were able to bypass the sandbox and execute code outside the browser's restrictions.