{"id":13697,"date":"2026-06-18T07:03:33","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T07:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/18\/microsoft-confirms-rogueplanet-defender_02022423645-html\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T07:03:33","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T07:03:33","slug":"microsoft-confirms-rogueplanet-defender_02022423645-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/18\/microsoft-confirms-rogueplanet-defender_02022423645-html\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Confirms RoguePlanet Defender Zero-Day, Says Patch is in Development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Microsoft Confirms RoguePlanet Defender Zero-Day, Says Patch is in Development<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>Microsoft has formally disclosed that it&#8217;s working to release a patch to address a Defender zero-day codenamed RoguePlanet.<\/p>\n<p>The vulnerability has now been assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2026-50656 (CVSS score: 7.8), with the tech giant describing it as a privilege escalation flaw.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Microsoft is aware of an elevation of privilege in the Microsoft Malware Protection Engine in Microsoft Defender<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2026\/06\/microsoft-confirms-rogueplanet-defender_02022423645.html\">Go to TheHackersNews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft Confirms RoguePlanet Defender Zero-Day, Says Patch is in Development Microsoft has formally disclosed that it&#8217;s working to release a patch to address a Defender zero-day codenamed RoguePlanet. The vulnerability has now been assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2026-50656 (CVSS score: 7.8), with the tech giant describing it as a privilege escalation flaw. &#8220;Microsoft is aware [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[76],"class_list":["post-13697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thehackersnews","tag-thehackersnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13697"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}