Hardware Router CTF

Here at Pen Test Partners we love hardware and also love a good CTF. So here's how I figured out my way through the hardware CTF that PTP set as a pre-requisite for some interviews. I'm pretty new to hardware, so learned quite a bit along the way. We have now moved on to a new 'interview' CTF so,...

Emerson 396359-26-4 ControlWave CPU module Detection

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Emerson 396359-25-6 ControlWave CPU module Detection

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Mac OS X Multiple EFI Vulnerabilities (EFI Security Update 2015-001)

The remote Mac OS X host is running EFI firmware that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities : - An insufficient locking issue exists, when resuming from sleep states, which allows a local attacker to write to the EFI flash memory by using an crafted application with root privileges. CVE-2015-36...

Row Hammer Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

On March 9, 2015, new research was published that takes advantage of a flaw in double data rate type 3 DDR3 synchronous dynamic random-access memory SDRAM to perform privilege escalation attacks on systems that contain the affected hardware. The flaw is known as Row Hammer. To attempt an attack,...