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New Splunk Windows Flaw Enables Privilege Escalation Attacks

Splunk for Windows has a high-severity flaw that lets local users escalate privileges through misconfigured file permissions. Learn how to fix it. A newly disclosed high-severity flaw in Splunk for ...
Dark Reading

Unpatched 'PhantomRPC' Flaw in Windows Enables Privilege Escalation

An unpatched vulnerability can allow for privilege escalation across Windows systems through the abuse of the Remote Procedure Call (RPC) architecture in Microsoft's OS. Called PhantomRPC, the flaw ...
Infosecurity-magazine.com

JumpCloud Windows Agent Flaw Enables Local Privilege Escalation

A critical security vulnerability affecting the JumpCloud Remote Assist for Windows agent has been identified, exposing managed endpoints to local privilege escalation and denial-of-service (DoS) ...
CSOonline

Microsoft patches privilege escalation flaw exploited since 2023

The privilege escalation flaw in the Win23k driver affects older versions of Windows and is one of six zero-day vulnerabilities fixed by Microsoft in its March patch cycle. Microsoft has released ...
CRN

CISA Confirms Windows Privilege Escalation Flaw Has Seen Exploitation

The U.S. cybersecurity agency also added a recently disclosed Google Pixel flaw to its list of exploited vulnerabilities. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) confirmed ...
ZDNet

Microsoft: Here's how to defend Windows against these new privilege escalation attacks

Microsoft has detailed how Windows customers can defend themselves from automated 'Kerberos Relay' attacks that can give an attacker System privileges on a Windows machine. Microsoft has responded to ...