Playing It SFAPE: Code Execution in Isolated User Mode

Reported by Doyensec

Summary by Cyber Security News13 Oct 2026, 00:00 CET

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It is tempting to think of Windows in terms of a simple model: user mode and kernel mode. If a bug lets a user-mode process gain control of the kernel, it’s game over. Well, for a long time it used to be like that.

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