Security researchers who successfully demonstrated zero-day attacks for Windows 11, Red Hat Linux, and Oracle VirtualBox were given $260,000 on the first day of Pwn2Own Berlin 2025.
After Pumpkin from the DEVCORE Research Team took use of an integer overflow vulnerability to make $20,000, Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Workstations became the first to be classified as a local privilege escalation.
By combining a use-after-free with an information leak, Hyunwoo Kim and Wongi Lee were also able to gain root access on a Red Hat Linux device; however, one of the exploited vulnerabilities was an N-day, which resulted in a bug collision.
Then, Chen Le Qi of STARLabs SG received $30,000 for a chain of exploits that escalated access to SYSTEM on a Windows 11 system by combining an integer overflow read more about Windows 11 and Red Hat Linux hacked on first day of Pwn2Own.
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