--- title: "Yellow Key: BitLocker has been Broken! Don't lose your laptop!" url: https://daily.dev/posts/yellow-key-bitlocker-has-been-broken-don-t-lose-your-laptop--6jdvjyvfv source_url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I14yjt00Fl8 type: video:youtube source: "Dave's Garage" published: 2026-05-15T18:49:18.423Z updated: 2026-05-16T20:57:47.302Z tags: ["security", "windows", "encryption"] reading_time: 2 upvotes: 0 comments: 0 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Yellow Key: BitLocker has been Broken! Don't lose your laptop! **[Dave's Garage](https://daily.dev/sources/davesgarage)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A newly disclosed BitLocker bypass called Yellow Key, released on May 12th by Nightmare/Chaotic Eclipse, allows attackers with brief physical access to unlock BitLocker-encrypted volumes on Windows 11 and Windows Server 2022/2025 without a password, recovery key, or TPM sniffing. The exploit abuses the Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE) transaction repair handling in the FSTX folder, tricking WinRE into mounting BitLocker-protected volumes as read-write during a recovery flow. A proof of concept is already on GitHub. Default TPM-only BitLocker configurations are silently vulnerable because the convenience unlock mechanism is exactly what the exploit rides. Windows 10 is reportedly not affected. Active exploitation has already been claimed. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: --- Tags: [#security](https://daily.dev/tags/security), [#windows](https://daily.dev/tags/windows), [#encryption](https://daily.dev/tags/encryption) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/yellow-key-bitlocker-has-been-broken-don-t-lose-your-laptop--6jdvjyvfv)