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Anthropic's Frontier Red Team Says Unreleased Claude Chained Flaws Into Working Chrome, Safari, Android, Windows and Linux Exploits

Summary

Anthropic's Frontier Red Team disclosed that an unreleased Claude research model built end-to-end exploit chains across five platforms, including a zero-click remote-root Linux chain (CVE-2026-98432, CVSS 9.8), a one-click Chrome escape combining four V8 and sandbox bugs patched in Chrome 156, a Safari same-origin break through WebKit's Gigacage, a locked-Pixel-9 bypass over USB, and a Windows QUIC crash (CVE-2026-33096). All flaws were reported to vendors ahead of patches, and the paper argues frontier models can now 'prove' novel vulnerabilities by producing working exploits with little human involvement.