JAZB VTT-006-v1.1: OpenAI Codex Sandbox Escape: Overpatch and Heapjack
JAZB VTT-006-v1.1 is an incident-informed validation exercise evaluating JAZB Framework Version 1.1 against the Overpatch and Heapjack sandbox-escape techniques disclosed for OpenAI Codex. The exercise deliberately grants the adversary the material technical successes described in the public research, including write capability beyond the intended workspace, recovery of a trusted runtime token, and delivery of forged requests to an unsandboxed native parent. JAZB receives no credit for assuming that the underlying sandbox protections remain intact. The exercise compares a mature contemporary cybersecurity and AI-governance baseline with an otherwise matched environment implementing the full applicable JAZB v1.1 capability set. Overpatch tests whether legitimate repository-write Authority can be widened through attacker-controlled path information and indirection until the effective target becomes an out-of-Scope host resource. Heapjack tests whether possession of a trusted technical token can be converted into legitimate Authority to invoke unsandboxed host capabilities. Under the stated full-implementation assumptions, the primary unauthorized host-action objective receives a PASS / PREVENTED disposition. Technical compromise does not create legitimate Authority. JAZB v1.1 applies effective-target validation, method-aware Authority, transitive-capability constraints, persistent behavioral state, repeated-circumvention correlation, and enforcement-path coverage to prevent or contain the tested actions. Where a consequential host path bypasses required JAZB governance or Actuation mediation and no equivalent control reliably prevents it, the result is classified as Governance Escape / implementation nonconformance, not as successful JAZB prevention. The exercise does not independently reproduce the disclosed vulnerabilities, does not claim that remediated systems remain vulnerable, and does not attribute JAZB architecture to OpenAI or any affected product. Central validation principle: Escaping the sandbox does not escape Authority.
Authors
- Michael Costner (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0007-3864-867X)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
- Published
- 2026-10-03
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23124220
- Primary Topic
- Security and Verification in Computing
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00