BlackX UEFI Bootkit Bypasses Secure Boot

Windows Systems

Sophisticated UEFI bootkit targets diplomatic organizations in Central Asia, suspected to be orchestrated by China-linked APT41

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Verify UEFI firmware integrity and Secure Boot status on Windows systems, since no fix is listed.

First seen: 23 Oct 2026
Last update: 23 Oct 2026, 18:50 UTC
Identifiers: CVE-2022-21894
CVSS: 4.4
Source: news
On the menu as: Windows

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## BlackX UEFI Bootkit Bypasses Secure Boot
Severity: critical. Patch status: fix status unknown.
Affected: Windows Systems
Ids: CVE-2022-21894

Sophisticated UEFI bootkit targets diplomatic organizations in Central Asia, suspected to be orchestrated by China-linked APT41

## Steps
1. This touches infrastructure (windows). Look in terraform, ansible, cloud-init, Dockerfiles and docs for the product and version we run. If it isn't in the repo, say so and list what a human should check on the box.
2. There is no fix yet. Until one ships: Sophisticated UEFI bootkit targets diplomatic organizations in Central Asia, suspected to be orchestrated by China-linked APT41

## Report
A table: file, product or package, version in use, affected yes/no, exact fix. Then anything a human has to check outside the repo.

If you have the pwned.coffee MCP server (https://pwned.coffee/mcp), call lookup_cve("CVE-2022-21894") for the latest, and check_repo with this repo's lockfiles, Dockerfiles and workflows for a full receipt.
Sources: https://thehackernews.com/2026/10/blackx-uefi-bootkit-bypasses-secure.html
https://pwned.coffee/i/blackx-uefi-bootkit-bypasses-secure-boot

Sources

feeds.feedburner.com: BlackX UEFI Bootkit Bypasses Secure Boot on Patched Windows Systems Missing Revocations

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