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Microsoft’s June 9, 2026 Patch Tuesday fixed the YellowKey BitLocker bypass, tracked as CVE-2026-45585, and a second BitLocker security-feature bypass, CVE-2026-50507, both of which matter most on Windows systems that rely on TPM-only device encryption without a startup PIN. That is the plain...

Microsoft’s June 2026 Patch Tuesday updates, released on June 9, fixed three publicly disclosed Windows zero-days tied to researcher Chaotic Eclipse, including YellowKey, a BitLocker bypass that abused Windows Recovery Environment behavior to expose protected drives on affected Windows 11 and...

Microsoft on May 19, 2026, assigned CVE-2026-45585 to YellowKey, a publicly disclosed BitLocker security feature bypass affecting Windows 11 24H2, 25H2, 26H1, and Windows Server 2025 systems, and issued mitigation guidance while it prepares a full security update. The uncomfortable part is not...