Wongi Lee

B.S. candidate in Computer Science and Engineering.

Work Experience

Theori

Researcher

Jun 2022 - Jun 2026

Analyzed Linux kernel vulnerabilities and authored Dreamhack lectures and wargames, including wargame level design.

Researcher

Aug 2025 - Jun 2026

Junior Researcher

Jan 2024 - Jul 2025

Intern Researcher

Jun 2022 - Aug 2022, Mar 2023 - Dec 2023

Presentations

Presented a race-condition exploitation workflow, following the path from a small bug idea to a practical pwnable impact.

Oct 2024

Presented a Linux kernel exploitation technique based on cross-CPU allocation behavior in preempt-disabled execution paths.

Experience

Chromium and Third-Party Contributions

2026 -

Found bugs and contributed patches across Chromium and third-party components.

CVE-2026-7335CVE-2026-8539CVE-2026-11136CVE-2026-13858

.HACK Conference

Organizer

2025 - 2026

Organized CTF and booth operations, preparing event content and on-site technical programs.

kernelCTF Submissions

2024 -

Submitted multiple kernelCTF exploits and writeups.

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Cold Fusion

Lead

2024 -

Worked on DEF CON CTF team operations and competition tooling for Cold Fusion.

DEF CON CTF Tooling

2025 - 2026

Developed tooling used by the team during DEF CON CTF.

DEF CON CTF Team Operations

2024 - 2026

Coordinated team operations for DEF CON CTF.

Activities

PLUS

Apr 2020 -

Hacker

Apr 2020 -

Competed in CTFs with PLUS and delivered internal pwnable lectures, covering exploitation fundamentals, challenge analysis, and practical problem-solving workflows.

Online Hacking & Security Camp Mentor

Jul 2021

Mentored high school students through hands-on security exercises, supported practical attack and defense training, and helped design CTF-style challenges for the camp.

Published Content

Systems Security Lectures

Authored practical security lecture material covering Linux fundamentals, glibc exploitation, Linux kernel internals, V8, and Windows internals.

Covered files, directories, processes, environment variables, file descriptors, package management, networking, and editor workflows.

Covered libc GOT overwrite, FSOP, exit handlers, TLS destructor lists, safe linking, and related exploitation techniques.

Covered kernel exploitation primitives, allocator internals, msg_msg, pipe_buffer, and simple_xattr attack surfaces.

Covered V8 object and heap structure, garbage collection, optimization behavior, and exploitation techniques.

Covered PE files, SEH, CFG, NT heap, segmented heap, and Windows exploitation fundamentals.

Awards

2026

DEF CON CTF Final · Cold Fusion

Finalist

2025

Pwnie Awards

Best Priv Esc

2025

Pwn2Own · Hyunwoo Kim / Wongi Lee

RHEL

2025

CCE General Division · 초코민트 요리모 미니칩

2nd

2025

DEF CON CTF Final · Cold Fusion

Finalist

2025

HITCON CTF Final · CTF Demon Hunters

Finalist

2024

DEF CON CTF Final · Cold Fusion

Finalist

2024

HITCON CTF Final · Cold Fusion

Finalist

2024

ICPC Seoul Regional Finals · ConForza

Finalist

2024

UCPC Final · 선배 마라탕 사주세요

Finalist

2023

HITCON CTF Final · Program Teolmochi

Finalist

2023

Codegate CTF Finals · PLUS

3rd

2023

WACON Finals · PLUS

Finalist

2023

SSTF CTF · Cy + Kr

3rd

2023

ICPC Seoul Regional Finals · BalloonBreakers

Finalist

2022

Codegate CTF Finals · PLUS

5th

2022

ICPC Seoul Regional Finals · CRYPKING

Finalist