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Pwnie Awards
StatusActive
GenreAwards Ceremony
FrequencyAnnual
VenueSummercon, Black Hat
Years active17
Inaugurated2007 (2007)
FounderAlexander Sotirov, Dino Dai Zovi
Websitepwnies.com

The Pwnie Awards recognize both excellence and incompetence in the field of information security.[citation needed] Winners are selected by a committee of security industry professionals from nominations collected from the information security community.[1] Nominees are announced yearly at Summercon, and the awards themselves are presented at the Black Hat Security Conference.[2]

Origins

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The name Pwnie Award is based on the word "pwn", which is hacker slang meaning to "compromise" or "control" based on the previous usage of the word "own" (and it is pronounced similarly). The name "The Pwnie Awards," pronounced as "Pony,"[2] is meant to sound like the Tony Awards, an awards ceremony for Broadway theater in New York City.

History

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The Pwnie Awards were founded in 2007 by Alexander Sotirov and Dino Dai Zovi[1] following discussions regarding Dino's discovery of a cross-platform QuickTime vulnerability (CVE-2007-2175) and Alexander's discovery of an ANI file processing vulnerability (CVE-2007-0038) in Internet Explorer.

Winners

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2024

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  • Most Epic Fail: Crowdstrike for 2024 CrowdStrike incident[3]
  • Best Mobile Bug: Operation Triangulation
  • Lamest Vendor Response: Xiaomi for obstructing Pwn2Own researchers from using their services
  • Best Cryptographic Attack: GoFetch
  • Best Desktop Bug: forcing realtime WebAudio playback in Chrome (CVE-2023-5996)
  • Best Song: Touch Some Grass by UwU Underground
  • Best Privilege Escalation: Windows Streaming Service UAF (CVE-2023-36802)
  • Best Remote Code Execution: Microsoft Message Queuing (MSMQ) Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CVE-2024-30080)
  • Most Epic Achievement: Discovery and reverse engineering of the XZ Utils backdoor
  • Most Innovative Research: Let the Cache Cache and Let the WebAssembly Assemble: Knocking’ on Chrome’s Shell[4] by Edouard Bochin, Tao Yan, and Bo Qu
  • Most Underhyped Research: See No Eval: Runtime Dynamic Code Execution in Objective-C[5]

2023

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  • Best Desktop Bug: CountExposure!
  • Best Cryptographic Attack: Video-based cryptanalysis: Extracting Cryptographic Keys from Video Footage of a Device’s Power LED [6] by Ben Nassi, Etay Iluz, Or Cohen, Ofek Vayner, Dudi Nassi, Boris Zadov, Yuval Elovici
  • Best Song: Clickin’
  • Most Innovative Research: Inside Apple’s Lightning: Jtagging the iPhone for Fuzzing and Profit
  • Most Under-Hyped Research: Activation Context Cache Poisoning
  • Best Privilege Escalation Bug: URB Excalibur: Slicing Through the Gordian Knot of VMware VM Escapes
  • Best Remote Code Execution Bug: ClamAV RCE
  • Lamest Vendor Response: Three Lessons From Threema: Analysis of a Secure Messenger
  • Most Epic Fail: “Holy fucking bingle, we have the no fly list,”
  • Epic Achievement: Clement Lecigne: 0-days hunter world champion
  • Lifetime Achievement Award: Mudge

2022

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  • Lamest Vendor Response: Google's "TAG" response team for "unilaterally shutting down a counterterrorism operation."[7][8][9]
  • Epic Achievement: Yuki Chen’s Windows Server-Side RCE Bugs
  • Most Epic Fail: HackerOne Employee Caught Stealing Vulnerability Reports for Personal Gains
  • Best Desktop Bug: Pietro Borrello, Andreas Kogler, Martin Schwarzl, Moritz Lipp, Daniel Gruss, Michael Schwarz for Architecturally Leaking Data from the Microarchitecture
  • Most Innovative Research: Pietro Borrello, Martin Schwarzl, Moritz Lipp, Daniel Gruss, Michael Schwarz for Custom Processing Unit: Tracing and Patching Intel Atom Microcode
  • Best Cryptographic Attack: Hertzbleed: Turning Power Side-Channel Attacks Into Remote Timing Attacks on x86 by Yingchen Wang, Riccardo Paccagnella, Elizabeth Tang He, Hovav Shacham, Christopher Fletcher, David Kohlbrenner
  • Best Remote Code Execution Bug: KunlunLab for Windows RPC Runtime Remote Code Execution (CVE-2022-26809)
  • Best Privilege Escalation Bug: Qidan He of Dawnslab, for Mystique in the House: The Droid Vulnerability Chain That Owns All Your Userspace
  • Best Mobile Bug: FORCEDENTRY
  • Most Under-Hyped Research: Yannay Livneh for Spoofing IP with IPIP

2021

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  • Lamest Vendor Response: Cellebrite, for their response to Moxie, the creator of Signal, reverse-engineering their UFED and accompanying software and reporting a discovered exploit.[10][11]
  • Epic Achievement: Ilfak Guilfanov, in honor of IDA's 30th Anniversary.
  • Best Privilege Escalation Bug: Baron Samedit of Qualys, for the discovery of a 10-year-old exploit in sudo.
  • Best Song: The Ransomware Song by Forrest Brazeal[12]
  • Best Server-Side Bug: Orange Tsai, for his Microsoft Exchange Server ProxyLogon attack surface discoveries.[13]
  • Best Cryptographic Attack: The NSA for its disclosure of a bug in the verification of signatures in Windows which breaks the certificate trust chain.[14]
  • Most Innovative Research: Enes Göktaş, Kaveh Razavi, Georgios Portokalidis, Herbert Bos, and Cristiano Giuffrida at VUSec for their research on the "BlindSide" Attack.[15]
  • Most Epic Fail: Microsoft, for their failure to fix PrintNightmare.[16]
  • Best Client-Side Bug: Gunnar Alendal's discovery of a buffer overflow on the Samsung Galaxy S20's secure chip.[17]
  • Most Under-Hyped Research: The Qualys Research Team for 21Nails,[18] 21 vulnerabilities in Exim, the Internet's most popular mail server.[19]

2020

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2019

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  • Best Server-Side Bug: Orange Tsai and Meh Chang, for their SSL VPN research.[20]
  • Most Innovative Research: Vectorized Emulation[21] Brandon Falk
  • Best Cryptographic Attack: \m/ Dr4g0nbl00d \m/ [22] Mathy Vanhoef, Eyal Ronen
  • Lamest Vendor Response: Bitfi
  • Most Over-hyped Bug: Allegations of Supermicro hardware backdoors, Bloomberg
  • Most Under-hyped Bug: Thrangrycat, (Jatin Kataria, Red Balloon Security)

2018

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  • Most Innovative Research: Spectre[23]/Meltdown[24] (Paul Kocher, Jann Horn, Anders Fogh, Daniel Genkin, Daniel Gruss, Werner Haas, Mike Hamburg, Moritz Lipp, Stefan Mangard, Thomas Prescher, Michael Schwarz, Yuval Yarom)
  • Best Privilege Escalation Bug: Spectre[23]/Meltdown[24] (Paul Kocher, Jann Horn, Anders Fogh, Daniel Genkin, Daniel Gruss, Werner Haas, Mike Hamburg, Moritz Lipp, Stefan Mangard, Thomas Prescher, Michael Schwarz, Yuval Yarom)
  • Lifetime Achievement: Michał Zalewski
  • Best Cryptographic Attack: ROBOT - Return Of Bleichenbacher’s Oracle Threat [25] Hanno Böck, Juraj Somorovsky, Craig Young
  • Lamest Vendor Response: Bitfi hardware crypto-wallet, after the "unhackable" device was hacked to extract the keys required to steal coins and rooted to play Doom.[26]

2017

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  • Epic Achievement: Federico Bento for Finally getting TIOCSTI ioctl attack fixed
  • Most Innovative Research: ASLR on the line [27] Ben Gras, Kaveh Razavi, Erik Bosman, Herbert Bos, Cristiano Giuffrida
  • Best Privilege Escalation Bug: DRAMMER [28] Victor van der Veen, Yanick Fratantonio, Martina Lindorfer, Daniel Gruss, Clementine Maurice, Giovanni Vigna, Herbert Bos, Kaveh Razavi, Cristiano Giuffrida
  • Best Cryptographic Attack: The first collision for full SHA-1 Marc Stevens, Elie Bursztein, Pierre Karpman, Ange Albertini, Yarik Markov
  • Lamest Vendor Response: Lennart Poettering - for mishandling security vulnerabilities most spectacularly for multiple critical Systemd bugs[29]
  • Best Song: Hello (From the Other Side)[30] - Manuel Weber, Michael Schwarz, Daniel Gruss, Moritz Lipp, Rebekka Aigner

2016

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  • Most Innovative Research: Dedup Est Machina: Memory Deduplication as an Advanced Exploitation Vector [31] Erik Bosman, Kaveh Razavi, Herbert Bos, Cristiano Giuffrida
  • Lifetime Achievement: Peiter Zatko aka Mudge
  • Best Cryptographic Attack: DROWN attack[32] Nimrod Aviram et al.
  • Best Song: Cyberlier[33] - Katie Moussouris

2015

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Winner list from.[34]

  • Best Server-Side Bug: SAP LZC LZH Compression Multiple Vulnerabilities, Martin Gallo
  • Best Client–Side Bug: Will it BLEND?,[35] Mateusz j00ru Jurczyk
  • Best Privilege Escalation Bug: UEFI SMM Privilege Escalation,[36] Corey Kallenberg
  • Most Innovative Research: Imperfect Forward Secrecy: How Diffie-Hellman Fails in Practice [37] Adrian David et al.
  • Lamest Vendor Response: Blue Coat Systems (for blocking Raphaël Rigo‘s research presentation at SyScan 2015)
  • Most Overhyped Bug: Shellshock (software bug), Stephane Chazelas
  • Most Epic FAIL: OPM - U.S. Office of Personnel Management (for losing data on 19.7 Million applicants for US government security clearances.)
  • Most Epic 0wnage: China
  • Best Song: "Clean Slate" by YTCracker
  • Lifetime Achievement: Thomas Dullien aka Halvar Flake

2014

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2013

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2012

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The award for best server-side bug went to Sergey Golubchik for his MySQL authentication bypass flaw.[40][41] Two awards for best client-side bug were given to Sergey Glazunov and Pinkie Pie for their Google Chrome flaws presented as part of Google's Pwnium contest.[40][42]

The award for best privilege escalation bug went to Mateusz Jurczyk ("j00ru") for a vulnerability in the Windows kernel that affected all 32-bit versions of Windows.[40][41] The award for most innovative research went to Travis Goodspeed for a way to send network packets that would inject additional packets.[40][41]

The award for best song went to "Control" by nerdcore rapper Dual Core.[40] A new category of award, the "Tweetie Pwnie Award" for having more Twitter followers than the judges, went to MuscleNerd of the iPhone Dev Team as a representative of the iOS jailbreaking community.[40]

The "most epic fail" award was presented by Metasploit creator HD Moore to F5 Networks for their static root SSH key issue, and the award was accepted by an employee of F5, unusual because the winner of this category usually does not accept the award at the ceremony.[40][42] Other nominees included LinkedIn (for its data breach exposing password hashes) and the antivirus industry (for failing to detect threats such as Stuxnet, Duqu, and Flame).[41]

The award for "epic 0wnage" went to Flame for its MD5 collision attack,[42] recognizing it as a sophisticated and serious piece of malware that weakened trust in the Windows Update system.[41]

2011

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2010

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2009

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  • Best Server-Side Bug: Linux SCTP FWD Chunk Memory Corruption (CVE-2009-0065) David 'DK2' Kim
  • Best Privilege Escalation Bug: Linux udev Netlink Message Privilege Escalation (CVE-2009-1185) Sebastian Krahmer
  • Best Client-Side Bug: msvidctl.dll MPEG2TuneRequest Stack buffer overflow (CVE-2008-0015) Ryan Smith and Alex Wheeler
  • Mass 0wnage: Red Hat Networks Backdoored OpenSSH Packages (CVE-2008-3844) Anonymous[1]
  • Best Research: From 0 to 0day on Symbian Credit: Bernhard Mueller
  • Lamest Vendor Response: Linux "Continually assuming that all kernel memory corruption bugs are only Denial-of-Service" Linux Project[47]
  • Most Overhyped Bug: MS08-067 Server Service NetpwPathCanonicalize() Stack Overflow (CVE-2008-4250) Anonymous[47]
  • Best Song: Nice Report Doctor Raid
  • Most Epic Fail: Twitter Gets Hacked and the "Cloud Crisis" Twitter[1]
  • Lifetime Achievement Award: Solar Designer[47]

2008

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2007

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References

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  2. ^ a b c d e f g Sutter, John D. (August 4, 2011). "Sony gets 'epic fail' award from hackers". CNN. Retrieved January 3, 2013.
  3. ^ Some of you may already be aware but due to extenuating circumstances we've made an early award!
  4. ^ "Let the Cache Cache and Let the WebAssembly Assemble: Knocking’ on Chrome’s Shell"
  5. ^ See No Eval: Runtime Dynamic Code Execution in Objective-C
  6. ^ Video-Based Cryptanalysis: Extracting Cryptographic Keys from Video Footage of a Device’s Power LED
  7. ^ @PwnieAwards (10 August 2022). "Our final nomination for Lamest Vendor Response goes to:Google TAG for "unilaterally shutting down a counterterrorism operation"" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  8. ^ "Google's top security teams unilaterally shut down a counterterrorism operation".
  9. ^ "Google's Project Zero shuts down Western counter-terrorist hacker team". 29 March 2021.
  10. ^ Goodin, Dan (2021-04-21). "In epic hack, Signal developer turns the tables on forensics firm Cellebrite". Archived from the original on 2023-05-23.
  11. ^ Cox, Joseph; Franceschi-Bicchierai, Lorenzo (2021-04-27). "Cellebrite Pushes Update After Signal Owner Hacks Device". Archived from the original on 2023-05-11.
  12. ^ Brazeal, Forrest (11 June 2021). "The Ransomware Song". YouTube. Archived from the original on 2021-12-21. Retrieved 9 August 2021.
  13. ^ Tsai, Orange. "ProxyLogon is Just the Tip of the Iceberg: A New Attack Surface on Microsoft Exchange Server!". www.blackhat.com. Retrieved 9 August 2021.
  14. ^ "U/OO/104201-20 PP-19-0031 01/14/2020 National Security Agency | Cybersecurity Advisory 1 Patch Critical Cryptographic Vulnerability in Microsoft Windows Clients and Servers" (PDF). Defense.gov. Retrieved 9 August 2021.
  15. ^ Göktaş, Enes; Razavi, Kaveh; Portokalidis, Georgios; Bos, Herbert; Giuffrida, Cristiano. "Speculative Probing: Hacking Blind in the Spectre Era" (PDF).
  16. ^ Kolsek, Mitja. "Free Micropatches for PrintNightmare Vulnerability (CVE-2021-34527)". 0Patch Blog. Retrieved 9 August 2021.
  17. ^ Alendal, Gunnar. "Chip Chop - Smashing the Mobile Phone Secure Chip for Fun and Digital Forensics". www.blackhat.com. Black Hat.
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  19. ^ "E-Soft MX survey". securityspace.com. E-Soft Inc. 1 March 2021. Retrieved 21 March 2021.
  20. ^ Tsai, Orange. "Infiltrating Corporate Intranet Like NSA - Pre-auth RCE on Leading SSL VPNs!". www.blackhat.com. Retrieved 7 August 2019.
  21. ^ "Vectorized Emulation: Hardware accelerated taint tracking at 2 trillion instructions per second", Vectorized Emulation
  22. ^ "Dragonblood: Analyzing the Dragonfly Handshake of WPA3 and EAP-pwd"
  23. ^ a b "Spectre Attacks: Exploiting Speculative Execution", Spectre
  24. ^ a b "Meltdown", Meltdown
  25. ^ "Return Of Bleichenbacher’s Oracle Threat (ROBOT)"
  26. ^ https://www.theregister.com/2018/08/31/bitfi_reluctantly_drops_unhackable_claim/ [bare URL]
  27. ^ "Pwnie for Most Innovative Research", Pwnie Awards
  28. ^ "Pwnie for Best Privilege Escalation Bug", Pwnie Awards
  29. ^ "The 2017 Pwnie Award For Lamest Vendor Response", Pwnie Awards
  30. ^ Hello (From the Other Side) Manuel Weber, Michael Schwarz, Daniel Gruss, Moritz Lipp, Rebekka Aigner
  31. ^ "Dedup Est Machina: Memory Deduplication as an Advanced Exploitation Vector", Erik Bosman et al.
  32. ^ "DROWN: Breaking TLS using SSLv2" Nimrod Aviram et al.
  33. ^ Cyberlier Katie Moussouris
  34. ^ "'Will it Blend?' Earns Pwnie for Best Client Bug; OPM for Most Epic Fail".
  35. ^ https://j00ru.vexillium.org/slides/2015/recon.pdf [bare URL PDF]
  36. ^ "CERT/CC Vulnerability Note VU#552286".
  37. ^ "Imperfect Forward Secrecy: How Diffie-Hellman Fails in Practice", Adrian David et al.
  38. ^ "Identifying and Exploiting Windows Kernel RaceConditions via Memory Access Patterns"
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  44. ^ "Kernel Attacks through User-Mode Callbacks"
  45. ^ "Securing the Kernel via Static Binary Rewriting and Program Shepherding"
  46. ^ "Interpreter Exploitation Pointer Inference and JIT Spraying"
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