Reverse Engineering & Exploiting Dell CVE-2021-21551

At the beginning of the month, Sentinel One disclosed five high severity vulnerabilities in Dell’s firmware update driver. As the described vulnerability appeared not too complicated to exploit, a lot of fellow security researchers started weaponizing it. I was one of, if not the first tweeting about weaponizing it into a _SEP_TOKEN_PRIVILEGES overwrite exploit, and with this blog post I would like to write down my thoughts process when dealing with n-day exploit writing. It’s a didactic blog post but keep...