Embark on a thrilling journey through the world of vulnerability hunting and exploit development in this conference talk from Ekoparty 2020. Follow security researchers Corentin Bayet and Bruno Pujos as they recount their intense two-month quest to reverse engineer VMware Workstation and uncover critical vulnerabilities for the Pwn2Own competition. Discover the challenges they faced in crafting a VM escape exploit with limited primitives in just 10 days, offering valuable insights into the high-stakes realm of time-constrained security research and exploitation techniques.