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Pwn2Own – WD, Samsung Galaxy S22, Canon and more Pwned

The Pwn2Own 2023 event will take place in South Beach, Miami, from February 14-16, 2023.

December 13, 2022

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Previously we reported on the results from Pwn2Own Toronto for Day 1 and Day 2 and today we will be talking about the proceedings of the last two days of the contest. Without further ado, let’s get right into it.

Pwn2Own Day 3

On December 08, 2022, the first success of the day went to Team Viettel which earned $20,000 for their execution of an OS Command Injection attack against the WD My Cloud PRO SERIES PR4 100 in the NAS category.

A newcomer Chi Tran of team Bun Bo Ong Chi executed their stack-based buffer overflow attack against the Canon image CLASS MF74Cdw in the Printer category and was rewarded $10,000 for their hack.

Team DEVCORE on the other hand, used one unique and one previously used bug against the Sonos One Speaker in the Smart Speaker category, earning $22,500.

NCC Group’s representative team earned $50,000 for hacking a Ubiquiti router and a Lexmark printer in the SOHO Smashup category. The Star Labs team earned $25,000 for an attack targeting a Synology router and a Canon printer. Team Viettel was awarded $37,500 for a hack involving a Cisco router and a Canon printer.

For only the Samsung Galaxy S22 exploits throughout the event, the contestants earned a total of $125,000. Google and Apple phones were not targeted.

By the end of the third day of the competition, a total of $934,750 had been awarded to the contestants for their successful hacks.

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Pwn2Own Day 4

On December 09, 2022, on the fourth day, ZDI, the organization behind Pwn2Own, awarded another $55,000, bringing the total contest prize money to $989,750. 63 unique zero days were purchased during the four-day contest.

The Master of Pwn title was awarded to the DEVCORE team for their winnings of $142,500 and 18.5 points. Team Viettel and NCC Group followed close behind with 16.5 and 15.5 points respectively.

Out of the 11 attempts scheduled for the last day of the contest, targeting printers and routers, only 3 were successful since the others either failed or used bugs previously reported in the event.

The first victory went to Chris Anastasion who used a heap-based buffer overflow to exploit the Lexmark printer, earning $10,000. This was followed by ANHTUD Information Security Department earning $10,000 by using another heap-based overflow to exploit the Canon printer.

The last successful hack of the Pwn2Own Toronto contest was carried out by the namnp team which won $10,000 for their unique bug against the Canon printer.

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With this, the hacking competition came to an end, marking yet another successful Pwn2Own iteration. However, the Pwn2Own 2023 event will take place in South Beach, Miami, from February 14-16, 2023. It will be an ICS/SCADA-themed event.