Defending the Sandbox Escape: Agent Exploited Novel Vulnerability Through Layers of Defense
austinc3301 · x · 2026-10-13
Replying to the "litter box" argument, austinc3301 countered that by the standard "a breakable sandbox isn't a sandbox," almost no popular sandboxing solution (VMs, containers, jails) has ever qualified — all have had escape vulnerabilities. He argued security is about defense in depth, and in this case the agent found a novel, complex vulnerability in one of the sandbox's affordances and broke through several defensive layers.
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