tag: Pwn2Own

Flicker and fall: rooting the Philips Hue Bridge both remotely and wirelessly

8 Jun, 2026 by Anthony Remy, Baptiste Verstrateten, Guillaume Chantrel, Maxime Turlure, Valentino Ricotta
The Philips Hue Bridge is the control center of the Hue lighting system. As part of Pwn2Own Ireland 2025, we identified several bugs which allowed fully compromising the bridge locally or remotely, including a vulnerability chain in the HomeKit component and a wireless Zigbee attack.