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Privilege escalation is a sophisticated attack tactic that exploits vulnerabilities like system bugs, misconfiguration, stolen accounts or weak access controls to gain unauthorized higher-level ...

Fortra has announced what it dubs a Microsoft security hole. There is no dispute that the privilege escalation issue exists, but there is much argument over whether it’s a flaw.

Google LLC’s Mandiant has published details of a critical privilege escalation vulnerability found in Microsoft Corp.’s Azure Kubernetes service that, though patched by Microsoft, could have ...

As the company explains, the CVE-2024-38202 Windows Backup privilege escalation vulnerability enables attackers with basic user privileges to "unpatch" previously mitigated security bugs or bypass ...