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February 18, 2026 #attacks #news #reverse engineering #research #hardware

StackWarp (CVE-2025-29943) is a vulnerability affecting AMD SEV that enables malicious hypervisors to tamper with encrypted virtual machines. This article recounts how recognizing a familiar exploitation pattern allowed us to quickly identify a promising attack path and build a working data-only exploit. The second half provides a technical overview of the sudo exploitation technique.