Hypervisor & VM Escape Research

VM escape is the most impactful privilege escalation: code inside a guest VM achieves execution on the hypervisor host, potentially compromising every other VM on the same physical machine. Covers the attack surface (virtual devices, guest tools, VMCI), vulnerability classes (heap overflow, TOCTOU, type confusion), and notable CVEs in VMware, VirtualBox, and QEMU.

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