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Privilege Elevation Dominates Massive Microsoft Patch Update

·Source: Dark Reading

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Executive Summary

Elevation-of-privilege bugs accounted for more than half of the 165 vulnerabilities patched, with two zero-days in that mix.

Analysis

Elevation-of-privilege bugs accounted for more than half of the 165 vulnerabilities patched, with two zero-days in that mix.
Source Attribution

Originally published by Dark Reading on Apr 14, 2026.

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