CVE detail
CVE-2026-61928
Cleartext storage of sensitive information in Windows Hello allows an authorized attacker to perform tampering locally.
Buzz score
Why this CVE is surfacing
This all-time snapshot uses the same composite formula as Trending across a 30-year evidence window, rather than a current rolling window.
Buzz score components · mention 13.9 · diversity 8.0 · KEV 0.0 · OTX 0.0 · PoC 0.0
Why it matters now
Mention timeline
- Total mentions
- 3
- within the 30d window
- Peak daily
- 3
- highest bucket
Evidence
Source links by recency
3 source links · newest first
ktop browser security patches so far this month. SharePoint: critical RCE chain by Rapid7 Today sees the publication of CVE-2026-63520 , a high-severity remote code execution in Microsoft SharePoint. Discovered by Rapid7 Senior Principal Security Researcher Stephen Fewer , and published today in coordination with Microsoft; this vulnerability is the se
vendorwww.rapid7.comAug 11, 2026, 9:10 PM- The August 2026 Security Update ReviewZero Day Initiative
g actively exploited, at least as 0-days. Again, we’ll start with the bug under active attack and move on from there. - CVE-2026-68820 - Windows Ancillary Function Driver for WinSock Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability This bug allows attackers to execute code at SYSTEM level. Bugs of this type are often paired with code execution bugs to take over a
vendorwww.thezdi.comAug 11, 2026, 5:56 PM - CVE-2026-61928 Windows Hello Tampering VulnerabilityMicrosoft MSRC
Cleartext storage of sensitive information in Windows Hello allows an authorized attacker to perform tampering locally.
vendormsrc.microsoft.comAug 11, 2026, 2:00 PM
Exploit code
Public exploit repository references
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