{"id":"thehackernews-9590ed7a40f8","seq":1920888,"kind":"news","title":"Critical 16-Year-Old UEFI Flaw Can Run Code Before Secure Boot on Network-Booting Servers","url":"https://thehackernews.com/2026/10/critical-16-year-old-uefi-flaw-can-run.html","permalink":"https://vulnpulse.app/items/thehackernews-9590ed7a40f8","summary":"A critical 16-year-old flaw in EDK II, the open-source code that most hardware makers use to build UEFI firmware, can allow an attacker to run code on a machine before its operating system loads, but only while the machine is booting over the network. UEFI firmware is the software that runs first when a computer is switched on, before the operating system. An attacker who can reach the machine","severity":"critical","techs":[],"cves":[],"tags":[],"source":{"id":"thehackernews","name":"The Hacker News"},"published_at":"2026-10-28T11:50:00.000Z","fetched_at":"2026-10-28T14:02:54.572Z"}