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29 0-days Uncovered : Hackers Earned $1,132,500 at Pwn2Own

Pwn2Own Vancouver 2024 hacking competition is over. Hackers earned $1,132,500 for showing 29 unique zero-days.

Participants in the Pwn2Own Vancouver 2024 hacking competition earned $1,132,500 for demonstrating 29 unique zero-days. On the first day, Team Synacktiv successfully demonstrated exploits against a Tesla car.

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The researcher Manfred Paul (@_manfp) won the Master of Pwn earning $202,500 and 25 points.

Participants demonstrated several zero-day exploits against various products such as Apple Safari, Google Chrome, and Microsoft Edge browsers, Windows 11, Ubuntu Desktop, VMware Workstation, Oracle VirtualBox, and Tesla. On Day Two, Manfred Paul (@_manfp) managed to escape the sandbox in Mozilla Firefox by exploiting an OOB Write for the RCE and an exposed dangerous function bug. He was rewarded with $100,000 and 10 Master of Pwn points for this successful hack.

Seunghyun Lee, a researcher from KAIST Hacking Lab, used a UAF to remotely execute code in Microsoft Edge and Google Chrome. He earned $85,000 and 9 Master of Pwn points.

The STAR Labs SG team showed the first Docker desktop escape at the Pwn2Own hacking competition by using two vulnerabilities, including a UAF. They won $60,000 and 6 Master of Pwn points.

The complete list of results for the first Two of the Pwn2Own Vancouver 2024 hacking competition is available here:

https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/blog/2024/3/21/pwn2own-vancouver-2024-day-two-results

Vendors have 90 days to fix the vulnerabilities found during the Pwn2Own hacking competition before they are publicly disclosed by TrendMicro’s Zero Day Initiative.

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