Microsoft recently patched a severe Elevation of Privilege (EoP) vulnerability in the Windows Error Reporting (WER) service, officially tracked as CVE-2026-20817. This flaw allows a local attacker with standard user rights to escalate to SYSTEM privileges by exploiting improper permission handling. The vulnerability was so significant that Microsoft chose to remove the affected feature entirely […]

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