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AIMicrosoft Confirms RoguePlanet Defender Zero-Day, Says Patch is in Development
Microsoft has officially acknowledged a zero-day vulnerability in Microsoft Defender, designated CVE-2026-50656 with a CVSS score of 7.8. The flaw, codenamed RoguePlanet, is a privilege escalation vulnerability affecting the Microsoft Malware Protection Engine, and Microsoft is actively developing a patch to address it.
AIMicrosoft Defender RoguePlanet Zero-Day Grants SYSTEM Access on Updated Windows
Security researcher Chaotic Eclipse has disclosed a zero-day vulnerability in Microsoft Defender called RoguePlanet that exploits a race condition to grant SYSTEM-level access on fully updated Windows systems. The proof-of-concept exploit has been published on GitHub, with the researcher claiming a 100% success rate under certain conditions. This represents a critical privilege escalation vulnerab