CVE detail
CVE-2026-45647
Time-of-check time-of-use (toctou) race condition in Microsoft Defender for Endpoint allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.
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Buzz score components · mention 16.1 · diversity 13.0 · KEV 0.0 · OTX 0.0 · PoC 0.0
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Evidence
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y to respond without out-of-cycle patches. At time of writing, Microsoft has provided mitigation advice and patches for CVE-2026-33825 , CVE-2026-45585 , CVE-2026-45498 , and CVE-2026-41091 , leaving only two elevation of privilege vulnerabilities unpatched, known as MiniPlasma and GreenPlasma. However, a recent blog post by Nightmare Eclipse with the
vendorwww.rapid7.comJun 9, 2026, 9:04 PM- The June 2026 Security Update ReviewZero Day Initiative
loser look at some of the more interesting updates for this month, starting with the bug being exploited in the wild. - CVE-2026-41091 - Microsoft Defender Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability Since Microsoft doesn’t provide info on how widespread exploitation is, we must read some tea leaves. For this patch, several different people were acknowledged,
vendorwww.thezdi.comJun 9, 2026, 6:12 PM Linked URL: https://www.bountyy.fi/blog/defender-macos-quarantine-toctou | Posted by chinesemango | 3 points | 0 comments
communitynews.ycombinator.comJun 9, 2026, 5:14 PM- CVE-2026-45647 Microsoft Defender for Endpoint for Mac Elevation of Privilege VulnerabilityMicrosoft MSRC
Time-of-check time-of-use (toctou) race condition in Microsoft Defender for Endpoint allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.
vendormsrc.microsoft.comJun 9, 2026, 2:00 PM
Exploit code
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