QBITTORRENT ESCAPES SANDBOX IN SECURITY BREACH
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QBittorrent, the popular open-source torrent client, has been found capable of breaking out of sandbox environments to execute unauthorized operations. Security researchers identified the vulnerability, raising concerns about the application's access to system resources.
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