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The Windows Registry Adventure #7: Attack surface analysis

ID: 8f8d6585-6f44-530c-bc8d-744f74f6e34a

STIX ID: report--8f8d6585-6f44-530c-bc8d-744f74f6e34a

Feed Name: Google Project Zero

Threat Score
70/100

Date Published: 2025-05-23

Date Updated: 2026-07-16

Author: Google Project Zero

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This Project Zero blog post provides a comprehensive technical review of the Windows Registry as an attack surface: its history, internal implementation, classes of vulnerabilities (hive memory corruption, pool corruption, race conditions, logic bugs, infoleaks), 53 CVEs found and fixed, entry points (app hives, user hives, logs, transactions, virtualization, layered keys), exploitation primitives, and practical fuzzing recommendations and mitigations.

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