Hunting Down The HVCI Bug In UEFI

This post details the story and technical details of the non-secure Hypervisor-Protected Code Integrity (HVCI) configuration vulnerability disclosed and fixed with the January 9th update on Windows. This vulnerability, CVE-2024-21305, allowed arbitrary kernel-mode code execution, effectively bypassing HVCI within the root partition.

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