Security News > 2020 > April > GitHub Shares Details on Six Chrome Vulnerabilities
GitHub has released technical information on six vulnerabilities identified by one of its security researchers in the WebAudio component of Chrome.
The researcher started looking for Chrome vulnerabilities while he was working for Semmle, which GitHub acquired last year for its code analysis platform.
While at Semmle, the expert identified several Chrome sandbox escape vulnerabilities for which Google paid out tens of thousands of dollars.
GitHub told SecurityWeek that while the vulnerabilities have been classified as high severity, they are "Sandboxed in the renderer" and in order to exploit them for arbitrary code execution in the context of Chrome they would need to be chained with another sandbox escape flaw either in Chrome or the operating system.
The GitHub Security Lab has released individual technical advisories for each of the Chrome vulnerabilities.