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Microsoft has cataloged a new local elevation-of-privilege (EoP) vulnerability in the Windows Extensible File Allocation Table (exFAT) implementation — tracked as CVE-2026-25174 — an out‑of‑bounds read that Microsoft says can allow an authorized local attacker to escalate privileges to a higher...

Microsoft has published an advisory for CVE-2026-25172 — a high‑severity remote code execution flaw in the Windows Routing and Remote Access Service (RRAS) — that Microsoft and multiple independent trackers say is caused by an integer overflow / wraparound in RRAS and can be triggered remotely...

Microsoft has recorded CVE-2026-25171 as a local elevation-of-privilege (EoP) bug in Windows Authentication Methods — a use‑after‑free in authentication code that, if triggered by an already authorized local actor, can elevate privileges on an affected host; Microsoft’s advisory entry and...

Microsoft and independent trackers recorded CVE-2026-25170 on March 10, 2026 — a use‑after‑free (CWE‑416) vulnerability in Windows Hyper‑V that Microsoft classifies as an elevation‑of‑privilege flaw allowing an authorized local actor with low privileges to obtain higher privileges on the host...

Microsoft's March 2026 security bulletin added another entry to a long-running problem class: a divide-by-zero weakness in the Windows Graphics Component that can be triggered by an unprivileged local actor to cause a denial of service. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-25169, is classified...

Microsoft’s March 2026 security update closes a denial‑of‑service weakness in the Windows Graphics Component tracked as CVE‑2026‑25168, a local null‑pointer dereference that can crash graphics‑handling processes and render affected systems unavailable until a reboot or service restart. The...

Microsoft has published details for CVE-2026-25167, a use‑after‑free elevation‑of‑privilege flaw in the Microsoft Brokering File System (BFS) that can allow a locally‑accessible attacker to escalate to SYSTEM‑level privileges on unpatched machines; Microsoft lists the vulnerability in the March...

Microsoft’s security trackers and independent feeds today record CVE-2026-25165 as an elevation-of-privilege vulnerability in the Windows Performance Counters subsystem — a null-pointer dereference that, when triggered by an authenticated local user, can be weaponized to escalate to system-level...

Microsoft released a security update on March 10, 2026 that addresses CVE‑2026‑24297, a Windows Kerberos "Security Feature Bypass" vulnerability caused by a race condition in the Kerberos implementation; Microsoft classifies the flaw as Important and has published a patch as part of the March...

Microsoft’s March 10, 2026 Patch Tuesday closed a race‑condition hole in the Windows Device Association Service that could allow a local, authorized user to escalate privileges to a more powerful account on affected machines, forcing administrators to prioritize testing and deployment of the...

Microsoft has recorded CVE-2026-24295 as an Important local elevation‑of‑privilege vulnerability in the Windows Device Association Service (service name: DeviceAssociation), and administrators should treat the entry as a verified vendor advisory while urgently mapping it to their SKU-specific...

Microsoft pushed emergency fixes on March 10, 2026 to address CVE-2026-24293, a high-impact elevation-of-privilege vulnerability in the Windows Ancillary Function Driver for WinSock (AFD.sys) that can allow a locally authenticated low-privileged user to gain SYSTEM-level rights. The bug is...

Microsoft’s record of CVE-2026-24292 identifies an elevation-of-privilege issue tied to the Windows Connected Devices Platform Service (CDPSvc), and defenders must treat the entry as a confirmed vendor advisory while carefully validating the technical details and per‑SKU patch mapping before...

Microsoft has patched an elevation-of-privilege vulnerability in the Windows Accessibility Infrastructure (ATBroker.exe) as part of the March 10, 2026 Patch Tuesday, closing a local privilege-escalation vector that could be weaponized after an attacker obtains a foothold on a machine. The...

Microsoft’s Security Response Center (MSRC) has recorded CVE-2026-24290 as an Elevation of Privilege vulnerability affecting the Windows Projected File System (ProjFS). The vendor’s entry is concise: the issue is a local, kernel-facing privilege-escalation weakness tied to the ProjFS subsystem...

Microsoft’s March Patch Tuesday added another Windows kernel elevation-of-privilege entry to the list: CVE-2026-24289, an Important-rated Windows Kernel vulnerability that Microsoft patched as part of the March 10, 2026 security updates. This is one of dozens of elevation-of-privilege (EoP)...

Microsoft has published an advisory for CVE-2026-24288, a heap-based buffer overflow in the Windows Mobile Broadband driver that Microsoft classifies as an Important remote code execution risk and for which a patch was released on March 10, 2026; administrators should treat this as urgent for...

Microsoft’s public tracking entry for CVE‑2026‑24283 identifies a new elevation‑of‑privilege weakness in the Windows Multiple UNC Provider kernel component that Microsoft classifies as a kernel‑mode, local attack path — and the vendor’s published confidence signal must be treated as the...

Microsoft’s security catalog has recorded CVE-2026-24282 as an out‑of‑bounds read in the Push Message Routing Service that can be abused by an authorized local user to disclose information from process memory, and Microsoft has released updates to address the defect; security teams should treat...

Microsoft shipped an urgent fix on Patch Tuesday for a newly catalogued elevation-of-privilege flaw in the Windows Universal Disk Format File System Driver (UDFS), tracked as CVE-2026-23672, closing a local attack path that could let low‑privilege users escalate to SYSTEM on affected machines...