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A vulnerability in Microsoft Dataverse identified as CVE-2024-38064 allows a remote, unauthenticated attacker to escalate privileges and potentially gain administrative access to the service.

A memory corruption vulnerability in libarchive (CVE-2024-20696) allows a local attacker to cause a Denial of Service condition through the processing of specially crafted archive files.

Local attackers can exploit multiple vulnerabilities in Microsoft Authenticator and Xbox Gaming Services to achieve elevated privileges on Windows systems.

Microsoft's September 2026 update cycle addresses 974 vulnerabilities, including two privilege-escalation zero-days actively exploited in the wild and 20 potentially wormable RCE flaws.

A type confusion vulnerability in the Google Chromium V8 engine is being actively exploited in the wild, allowing remote attackers to achieve arbitrary code execution within the sandbox environment via crafted HTML pages.

Roundup of Microsoft security advisories published in September 2026.

A local privilege escalation vulnerability in the Microsoft Windows Package Manager allows an authenticated local attacker to gain elevated privileges on the host system.

Microsoft's August 2026 security release addresses 415 vulnerabilities, including a zero-day (CVE-2026-68820) exploited in the wild that enables local privilege escalation in the Windows Ancillary Function Driver for WinSock.

Detection of unauthorized child process creation by the Windows UAC consent.exe binary, a common indicator of UAC bypass and privilege escalation activity.

Microsoft Office applications are frequently abused to spawn system processes to execute malicious code, download payloads, or facilitate privilege escalation.

Roundup of Microsoft security advisories published in August 2026.

Microsoft's July 2026 Patch Tuesday addressed 622 vulnerabilities, including two actively exploited zero-day elevation of privilege flaws, CVE-2026-56155 in Active Directory Federation Services and CVE-2026-56164 in SharePoint, allowing local and remote attackers to gain administrative control.

CVE-2026-63030 is a critical unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerability affecting WordPress Core versions 6.9.0 through 6.9.4 and 7.0.0 through 7.0.1, allowing an unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code via the WordPress REST API batch endpoint, potentially leading to complete website compromise.

Roundup of Microsoft security advisories published in July 2026.

This rule detects potential privilege escalation attempts by exploiting CVE-2021-42278, which involves spoofing the samAccountName attribute to impersonate a domain controller and elevate privileges from a standard domain user to a domain administrator by identifying suspicious computer account name rename events where a machine account name is renamed to a user-like account name.

This rule detects potential exploitation of the InstallerTakeOver vulnerability (CVE-2021-41379), where successful exploitation allows an unprivileged user to escalate privileges to SYSTEM.

The execution of rundll32.exe without command-line arguments is detected via endpoint telemetry, a behavior indicative of potential malicious activity such as Cobalt Strike, leading to arbitrary code execution and system compromise.

This brief details the detection of DNS-based Kerberos coercion attacks, where adversaries inject marshaled credential structures into DNS records to spoof SPNs and redirect authentication, as seen in CVE-2025-33073, using Suricata and Sysmon event ID 22.