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This seems to theorize an attack where you are interested in particularly data of the particularly visited website, and at the same time assuming that the attack would have to be carried out on the same website.

The vulnerability however allows arbitrary reading of any memory in the system in at least some circumstances, the presented PoC (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrsOvaN7PaA ) demonstrates this by literally searching memory for the system's /etc/shadow and dumping that.

Whether the attack is practical using JS instead of a compiled C program is unknown to me, but if it is, it's not clear to me why the attacker would need to inject JS code into other websites or know what addresses to target. (If it is not, the question is moot.)

parent anyfoo 1 year ago

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