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Dark Elevator: Windows Install Service Local Privilege Escalation (CVE-2026-50343)
Today we walk through Dark Elevator, a LPE in Windows 11. We reported it to Microsoft on May 20, 2026, and it is now fixed as CVE-2026-50343.
A normal user can cause InstallService, the SYSTEM service behind the Windows app install pipel...
Journey to Root, Episode I: The Maglev King
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Introduction
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Why Do We Do This?
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So, Where Were All The Humans?
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Anatomy Of An Exploit Chain
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Renderer Exploit Chain Overview
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Act I: A Forgotten Barrier That Derails Maglev
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MAD Bugs: My Cousin Vinyl (CVE-2026-50052)
So the story went like this: Squid was bleeding from a 29-year-old heap overread in her default config. Naturally, she did the only sensible thing: she called her cousin, Vinyl.
Squid and Vinyl are family: both are HTTP caching proxies wri...
Squidbleed (CVE-2026-47729)
Two weeks ago, we dropped an HTTP/2 bomb cooked up by Codex Cyber. This time, we sent Claude Mythos Preview spelunking through Squid’s guts, and it surfaced clutching a 29-year-old bug.
Meet Squidbleed: a Heartbleed-style vulnerability tha...
Apple Internals: Swift in the Kernel
After WWDC, I saw Devon Maloney posted a slide saying Apple has “started writing parts of the core operating system kernel in Swift” for the 27 releases. First steps toward a memory-safe kernel. What does this even mean?!
Naturally I dropp...
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