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A critical vulnerability in TianoCore EDK II, the open-source UEFI firmware used by the vast majority of servers worldwide, has gone unpatched for 16 years, allowing attackers to execute arbitrary code before Secure Boot even initializes — effectively bypassing one of the foundational hardware security controls. This incident illustrates how firmware-level vulnerabilities are chronically overlooked in enterprise patch management programs, which tend to focus on operating systems and applications while neglecting the underlying firmware stack. The age of this flaw (16 years) signals a systemic failure in both vendor disclosure timelines and organizational vulnerability tracking. Because UEFI-level compromise can survive OS reinstallation and persist beneath traditional security tooling, the blast radius of exploitation is extraordinarily high. Organizations that lack firmware inventory and patching workflows are effectively running unauditable attack surfaces at the hardware root of trust.