{
  "id": 16908343,
  "title": "Critical 16-Year-Old UEFI Flaw Can Run Code Before Secure Boot on Network-Booting Servers",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/28/critical-16-year-old-uefi-flaw-can-run-code-before-secure-boot-on",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-10-28T11:50:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Hacker News",
    "slug": "the-hacker-news",
    "url": "https://thehackernews.com/2026/10/critical-16-year-old-uefi-flaw-can-run.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "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",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}