HTB VariaType Complete Writeup — CVE-2025-66034 & Font Exploitation

A comprehensive penetration testing guide exploiting fontTools vulnerabilities, ZIP command injection, and setuptools path traversal to achieve complete RCE and root privilege escalation.

March 15, 2026 • views • 20 min read • 1,972 words

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