Articles from February 2026
Browse all Windows news articles published in February 2026
CVE-2026-21522: Critical Privilege Escalation Flaw in Azure Confidential Containers
Microsoft has assigned CVE-2026-21522 to a newly disclosed elevation-of-privilege flaw affecting Azure Container Instances (ACI) Confidential Containers, warning that an attacker with access inside a
CVE-2026-21533: Critical Windows RDS Vulnerability & Patch Tuesday Analysis
Microsoft’s Security Update Guide records a new entry for CVE-2026-21533 — an Elevation of Privilege (EoP) vulnerability in Windows Remote Desktop Services (RDS) — and security vendors pushed detectio
Patch VS Code and Copilot now: CVE-2026-21523 critical flaw risks remote code execution.
Executive summary What this note covers: an evidence-driven assessment of the credibility and confidence in the public record for CVE‑2026‑21523 (described in vend
CVE-2026-21513: Critical MSHTML Security Bypass Threatens Windows Systems
Microsoft has logged CVE-2026-21513 as a Security Feature Bypass affecting the MSHTML (Internet Explorer / MSHTML framework) surface, and the vendor’s official entry carries a report‑confidence signal
CVE-2026-21229: Analyzing Power BI's Critical RCE Vulnerability and Community Response
Microsoft’s Security Update Guide lists CVE-2026-21229 as a Remote Code Execution (RCE) class vulnerability affecting Power BI, but the public advisory is terse and the precise attack mechanics and pr
CVE-2026-23655: Critical Azure Confidential Container Vulnerability Exposed
Microsoft’s handling of confidential computing has taken another high‑stakes turn with CVE‑2026‑23655, an information disclosure vulnerability that targets Azure’s Confidential Container capabilities
AFD.sys flaw lets attackers elevate to SYSTEM across multiple Windows builds, CVE-2026-21236.
Microsoft’s security tracker now shows CVE-2026-21236 as an elevation-of-privilege issue in the Windows Ancillary Function Driver for WinSock (AFD.sys), a kernel‑mode driver that sits at the heart of
CVE-2026-21218: Critical .NET Spoofing Vulnerability Analysis and Mitigation Guide
Microsoft’s Security Update Guide has assigned CVE‑2026‑21218 to a .NET‑class spoofing vulnerability, but public technical detail remains limited: the identifier exists and is being tracked by the ven
CVE-2026-21234: Analyzing the CDPSvc Privilege Escalation Vulnerability and Microsoft's Report Confidence Metric
Microsoft’s security database lists CVE-2026-21234 as an elevation‑of‑privilege issue tied to the Windows Connected Devices Platform Service (CDPSvc), and the entry highlights the vendor’s report conf
CVE-2026-21242: Critical WSL Elevation-of-Privilege Vulnerability Patched by Microsoft
Microsoft’s security index now records CVE-2026-21242 as a Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) elevation-of-privilege (EoP) vulnerability; the public vendor entry is
CVE-2026-21235: Windows Graphics EoP Vulnerability Analysis & Patch Guide
Microsoft’s Security Response Center has recorded CVE-2026-21235 as an Elevation of Privilege (EoP) vulnerability in the Windows Graphics Component, a class of bugs that routinely offers attackers a p
CVE-2026-21246 Patch Windows Graphics Component Now
Microsoft’s Security Response Guide lists an entry for CVE‑2026‑21246 as a Windows Graphics Component elevation‑of‑privilege issue, but public records and independent trackers show conflicting identif