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Firecracker VM Escape: PwnEscape Part 2
The blog details a Firecracker microVM escape where the attacker uses a guest-controlled page to find the Firecracker process in host memory, locate the saved registers for a vCPU thread, and hijack the thread's return from KVM to achieve root code execution.
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