Articles from May 2026
Browse all Windows news articles published in May 2026
CVE-2026-44673: High-Severity libyang Bug Threatens NETCONF and Sysrepo Availability
Microsoft’s Security Update Guide, typically the go-to source for Windows patch information, surprised many administrators on May 23, 2026, when it published an advisory for CVE-2026-44673—a...
Patch Click 8.3.3 Now to Stop Command Injection via Your Own Filenames (CVE-2026-7246)
A high-severity command-injection vulnerability in Pallets Click—the Python library powering countless CLI tools—allows attackers to trick applications into running arbitrary commands simply by...
CVE-2026-41035: rsync Use-After-Free Puts Windows Backup Scripts at Risk
Microsoft’s Security Response Center has published an advisory for CVE-2026-41035, a use-after-free vulnerability in rsync versions 3.0.1 through 3.4.1 that can destabilize or crash the service...
New haveged Patch Closes Local Root Exploit—Windows Admins Should Act Now
On May 19-20, 2026, the maintainers of haveged, a widely-used Linux entropy daemon, released version 1.9.21 to fix CVE-2026-41054, a local privilege escalation flaw that allows any unprivileged user...
etcd Access Control Flaw Exposes Data Through Transaction Exploit (CVE-2026-44283)
Microsoft this week flagged a vulnerability in etcd, the distributed key-value store that forms the core of Kubernetes clusters and many other distributed platforms, which could allow authenticated...
The SSE Event-Splitting Flaw (CVE-2026-43968) That Exposes Windows Admin Dashboards
Microsoft’s Security Response Center disclosed a vulnerability this week in cowlib, an open-source Erlang library, that lets attackers inject fake events into real-time web streams. The bug affects...
CVE-2026-7790: Critical DoS Flaw in Erlang Cowlib Chunked HTTP Parser – Upgrade to 2.16.1 Now
A high-severity denial-of-service vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-7790 has been disclosed in cowlib, the low-level HTTP parsing library that underpins the popular Cowboy web server for Erlang/OTP....
CVE-2026-33814 HTTP/2 Bug in Go: Patch Now to Prevent Client DoS
A single malicious SETTINGS frame can bring Go-based clients to a grinding halt, forcing applications into an infinite processing loop that consumes CPU resources until manual intervention. Security...
SimCorp Unifies Platform on Azure to Deliver Governed AI at Scale
Microsoft has published a new customer story detailing how Danish financial technology firm SimCorp unified its SimCorp One investment-management platform on Microsoft Azure, leveraging...
CPython CR/LF injection bug in HTTP proxy tunnel threatens Windows users
A medium-severity vulnerability in CPython’s HTTP proxy tunneling code leaves Windows users open to CR/LF injection attacks, according to an advisory published in April 2026. Tracked as...
Jessica Hawk’s AI Founder Blueprint: How Azure and Agentic Systems Are Reshaping Startup Strategy
First-time founders must stop treating AI as a bolt-on and start combining it with every layer of their business—from coding to customer mentorship. That’s the core message from Microsoft’s...
CVE-2026-45659: Patch All SharePoint 2016 Editions, Not Just Enterprise Server
Microsoft’s May 2026 Patch Tuesday brought a critical remote code execution vulnerability, CVE-2026-45659, to light—and with it, a labeling quirk that could trip up SharePoint administrators. The...