Vulnerability Management
The latest Vulnerability Management coverage — news, analysis, and updates from the WindowsNews.AI desk.
Microsoft Confirms Privilege-Escalation Hole in Windows LSM—Patch Now
Microsoft has released security updates to fix a newly disclosed elevation-of-privilege vulnerability in the Windows Local Session Manager (LSM), a core system component that manages user sessions...
CVE-2026-20852: Windows Hello Tampering Vulnerability - Patch & Detection Guide
Microsoft has issued a critical security advisory for CVE-2026-20852, a Windows Hello tampering vulnerability that allows unauthorized local attackers to compromise biometric authentication systems....
Windows Security 2026: KEV Additions, PoC Exploits & Patch Triage Challenges
The cybersecurity landscape for Windows systems in 2026 has opened with unprecedented intensity, with recent data revealing 678 newly tracked CVEs in just one week and nearly 100 with publicly...
Microsoft Confirms Azure Linux Kernel Bug Can Crash Systems—Check Your WSL and VM Hosts Now
Microsoft has confirmed that its Azure Linux distribution carries a Linux kernel flaw that can trigger system crashes under certain conditions. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-38630, resides...
Microsoft Confirms Azure Linux Is Affected by CVE-2025-38497, But Many Other Products Remain Unverified
Microsoft has officially confirmed that Azure Linux contains the vulnerable open-source library tied to CVE-2025-38497, publishing the finding in a new machine-readable CSAF/VEX format. But the...
Microsoft Flags Azure Linux for Critical Kernel Bug, Leaves Other Linux Products Unchecked
Microsoft issued a security advisory this week declaring that its Azure Linux distribution is potentially affected by CVE-2025-38491, a kernel-level vulnerability that could allow attackers to...
Azure Linux is Affected by Kernel Crash Bug, but Microsoft Can’t Say if WSL and AKS Are Safe Yet
A Linux kernel bug that lets attackers crash systems has fixed upstream, and Microsoft confirmed this week that Azure Linux ships the vulnerable code. Microsoft’s advisory stops short of declaring...
CVE-2025-61102: Remote OSPF NULL Pointer Attack Crashes FRRouting Daemons
A critical vulnerability in FRRouting's OSPF implementation has been disclosed, posing significant risks to enterprise networks, data centers, and internet infrastructure worldwide. Designated as...
Azure Linux Gets First Machine-Readable VEX Attestation for CVE-2024-3177, MSRC Warns Other Products May Differ
When Microsoft's Security Response Center (MSRC) published its attestation for CVE-2024-3177 stating that "Azure Linux includes this open-source library and is therefore potentially affected," it...
Azure Linux patched for CVE-2025-38462; WSL2 and Marketplace images still unconfirmed safe
When Microsoft's Security Response Center (MSRC) published its advisory for CVE-2025-38462, a vulnerability in the vsock transport layer, it included a specific statement that has become a case study...
CVE-2025-38445: Azure Linux MD RAID1 Vulnerability & Microsoft's Security Response
A critical Linux kernel vulnerability affecting Microsoft's Azure Linux distribution has been disclosed, revealing significant implications for cloud security infrastructure and Microsoft's evolving...
Microsoft’s Azure Linux Battered by Kernel SMB Bug, but WSL2 and AKS Users Left in Limbo
Microsoft has officially acknowledged that its Azure Linux distribution is vulnerable to a critical kernel-level flaw in the in-kernel SMB server. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-38437, stems...