A Bring Your Own Vulnerable Driver (BYOVD) attacker installs any signed, old third-party driver with known vulnerabilities that allow malicious code to be inserted into the kernel.Drivers that may be vulnerable include those for WiFi and Bluetooth, gaming/graphics drivers, and drivers for printers.

There is a lack of effective kernel vulnerability detection tools, especially for closed-source operating systems such as Microsoft Windows where the source code of the device drivers is mostly proprietary