Firecracker VM Escape: PwnEscape Part 2(pwn.ai)
287 points by SerCe 5 days ago | 143 comments
tl;dr: A malicious guest crossed Firecracker's microVM boundary, resolved the live VMM from inside the VM, and took control of a root-run host process—turning a Linux networking flaw into a guest-to-host cod...
HN Discussion:
  • ~Article underspecifies impact since properly jailed Firecracker deployments may not be vulnerable
  • ↑Confirms the exploit is real and reproducible on actual Firecracker-based services
  • ↓This is not new; it's just a rehash/dupe of a previously disclosed vulnerability
  • ↑Microhypervisor or layered isolation approaches would be architecturally superior to Firecracker's model
  • ↓Exploit writeup is meaningless or LLM-generated slop that hides prerequisites