Microsoft Warns of Two Actively Exploited Defender Vulnerabilities
https://thehackernews.com/2026/05/microsoft-warns-of-two-actively.html
Microsoft has disclosed that a privilege escalation and a denial-of-service flaw in Defender has come under active exploitation in the wild.
The former, tracked as CVE-2026-41091, is rated 7.8 on the CVSS scoring system. Successful exploitation of the flaw could allow an attacker to gain SYSTEM privileges.
https://stacker.news/items/1494421
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