"RoguePlanet" Zero Day MS Defender Privilege Escalation

CVE-2026-50656, publicly referred to as “RoguePlanet,” is a local elevation of privilege vulnerability in the Microsoft Malware Protection Engine (the core scanning engine used by Microsoft Defender). The flaw allows an attacker with local access to spawn a command shell running with SYSTEM privileg…

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