The disclosure timeline for @quarkslab's PixieFail is hilarious and mirrors my experience of trying to manage disclosure of firmware vulnerabilities with IBV/ODM/OEMs. blog.quarkslab.com/pixiefail-n

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@quarkslab for instance Sleep Attack (CVE-2020-8705) initially had a 90 day disclosure timeline, but in the end took almost a year to coordinate with between Intel, the BIOS vendors and the OEMs since it required new Management Engine firmware to be deployed. trmm.net/Sleep_attack/

@quarkslab (but I was never asked if I would fix the problem for them... and even now I'm not sure exactly how Intel worked around the Bootguard fuse misconfiguration, so the mitigation section of my writeup is speculative)

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