When Checking the Box Results in Two Zero Days and Root (CVE-2019-14257 and CVE-2019-14258)

Finding new bugs and exploiting them can be exciting and fun for a penetration tester. I was ecstatic to find my first two zero-days, and I used them to break a system from no access to root. This was a good day for me - but the story behind the story provides some real lessons enterprises can apply to their security programs.