Wongi Lee

B.S. candidate in Computer Science and Engineering.

Work Experience

Theori

Researcher

Jun 2022 - Jun 2026

  • Linux kernel vulnerability analysis and exploitation
  • Dreamhack lecture and wargame authoring
  • 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

  • Analysis of a multi-task race condition in vsock, a Linux kernel subsystem (CVE-2024-50264)
  • Introduction and demonstration of an attack using various exploitation techniques, including cross-CPU allocation and JIT spray section overwrite

Oct 2024

  • Introduction of a Linux kernel exploitation technique using cross-CPU allocation when cross-cache is required but CPU migration is prevented by a preempt-disabled context
  • Introduction of WakeROP, a technique for performing a stack pivot under constrained conditions

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

  • Managed content and booth operations for the CTF session and community booth
  • Gave a conference talk on how to study hacking

Cold Fusion

Lead

2024 -

  • Cold Fusion team operations
  • Tooling development for attack-and-defense CTFs, including DEF CON and HITCON

DEF CON CTF Tooling

2025 - 2026

DEF CON CTF Team Operations

2024 - 2026

Activities

PLUS

Apr 2020 -

Hacker

Apr 2020 -

  • CTF participation
  • System hacking lectures and challenge authoring

Online Hacking & Security Camp Mentor

Jul 2021

  • Delivered security and hacking lessons and hands-on exercises for high school students
  • Created and operated mock CTF challenges

Security Audit

Jul 2021, Aug 2022, Aug 2023

  • Conducted security audits of university systems

Published Content

Systems Security Lectures

Authored lectures on Linux, Windows, and browser internals and exploitation techniques.

Authored lectures on files, directories, processes, environment variables, file descriptors, package management, networking, and editor workflows

Authored lectures on libc GOT overwrite, FSOP, exit handlers, TLS destructor lists, safe linking, and related exploitation techniques

Authored lectures on kernel exploitation primitives, allocator internals, and exploitation techniques using msg_msg, pipe_buffer, and simple_xattr

Authored lectures on V8 object and heap structures, garbage collection, optimization behavior, and exploitation techniques

Authored lectures on 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