CVE-2026-54121

CVE-2026-54121 lets a standard domain user turn your Enterprise CA into a Domain Controller. The patch is the easy part. The lesson is standing privilege, implicit trust, and treating PKI as the Tier 0 identity infrastructure it has a

t of Microsoft AD Services. In its July raft of a record 622 Patch Tuesday updates, Microsoft patched a flaw tracked as CVE-2026-54121 , which the researchers who discovered and exploited it — Aniq Fakhrul ( @aniqfakhrul ) and Muhammad Ali ( @h0j3n ) — called "Certighost," according to a post by the researchers on GitHub. As the researchers described,

bility, has been released that can allow authenticated attackers to potentially compromise a Windows domain. Tracked as CVE-2026-54121 , the vulnerability was fixed by Microsoft as part of the July 2026 Patch Tuesday security updates. "An authenticated attacker could manipulate attributes associated with a machine account and obtain a certificate from

products, including a critical flaw that has come under active exploitation in the wild. The security flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-16232 (CVSS score: 9.3), is an authentication bypass affecting the Check Point SmartConsole login process that allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to obtain an application login token and use it to authenticate with ful

Security researchers who discovered and reported CVE-2026-54121 (aka “Certighost”), a critical privilege elevation vulnerability in Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS), have released a proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit for and technical details related to the flaw. The vulner

t secret through DCSync . Microsoft patched the Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS) issue ten days earlier as CVE-2026-54121 . Microsoft classed the flaw as improper authorization and assigned it a CVSS score of 8.8. Exploitation requires network access and a domain account, but no administrator rights or user interaction. In the researchers'

t families affected by July 2026 Patch Tuesday Exploited Zero-Day Vulnerability in Active Directory Federation Services CVE-2026-56155 is an Important elevation of privilege vulnerability affecting Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) and has a CVSS score of 7.8 . An insufficient granularity of access control flaw (CWE-1220) allows a low-privil

patched, including two that have been exploited in the wild. Those two are both elevation of privilege vulnerabilities: CVE-2026-56155, an Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) flaw that allows attackers with limited access to elevate privileges to administrator, and CVE-2026-56164 , a Microsoft SharePoint Server vulnerability. The third is CVE-

ation of remediations as a trailing indicator. SharePoint: critical auth bypass by Rapid7 Today sees the publication of CVE-2026-55040 , a critical authentication bypass in Microsoft SharePoint. Discovered by Rapid7 Senior Principal Security Researcher Stephen Fewer , and published today in coordination with Microsoft, this vulnerability is the first i

ication denial-of-service, and arbitrary code execution. Zero-day Vulnerabilities Patched in July Patch Tuesday Edition CVE-2026-56155: Active Directory Federation Services Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability Insufficient granularity of access control in Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) could allow an authenticated attacker to elevate priv

ed as "critical." Microsoft notes that two of the vulnerabilities disclosed this month have been exploited in the wild. CVE-2026-56155 is an important-severity elevation of privilege vulnerability in Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) caused by insufficient granularity of access control. An authorized attacker could use it to elevate privileg

ile no official fix is available. The two actively exploited zero-days addressed during this month's Patch Tuesday are: CVE-2026-56155 - Active Directory Federation Services Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability Microsoft has patched an actively exploited vulnerability in Active Directory Federation Services that grants administrative privileges. "Insuf

oser look at some of the more interesting updates for this month, starting with the bugs being exploited in the wild. - CVE-2026-56155 - Active Directory Federation Services Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability This is one of several AD FS being patched this month, but it’s the only one being actively exploited. It stems from insufficient access-contro

Improper authorization in Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS) allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges over a network.