Vercel's $1M sandbox escape challenge: 1,285 reports, $242K bounties, one Linux kernel zero-day
cramforce · x · 2026-10-15
Vercel offered $1M to escape its Sandbox. Results: 1,285 reports, $242,000 in bounties paid, one Linux kernel zero-day discovered, and no customer data compromise.
Guillermo Rauch frames it as a landmark for agent containment: OpenAI's earlier agent escape was "escaping the network" (gaining internet access by hacking another system), while this challenge surfaced something bigger — a white-hat researcher using a swarm of AI agents to pierce the Linux virtualization boundary that nearly every cloud sandbox provider relies on.
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