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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.
NVIDIA NeMo Framework Vuln Allow Attackers RCE
Cisco Issued Urgent Security Advisories For Multiple Products
SonicWall patched SSLVPN Vuln Allowing Firewall Crashing
GitLab Releases Security Update For Multiple Vulns
ISPAB president “whatsapp” got hacked via phishing link
Zyxel released patches 2 vulns in its USG FLEX H series firewalls
South Korea’s largest SK Telecom Hit by Malware: SIM-related info leaked
ChatGPT Develops Exploit for CVEs Before Public PoCs Share
TP-Link Router Vulns Allow to Execute Malicious SQL Commands
SSL.com’s domain validation system’s bug found: Hacker exploited
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.
