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Researcher Drops New Windows Zero-Day PoC Hours After Microsoft Patch Tuesday

ID: 4c69058a-e65e-5101-b0e1-c988e73c7ec4

STIX ID: report--4c69058a-e65e-5101-b0e1-c988e73c7ec4

Feed Name: The Hacker News

Threat Score
70/100

Date Published: 2026-07-15

Date Updated: 2026-07-16

Author: [email protected] (The Hacker News)

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**Executive summary:** Security researcher 'Chaotic Eclipse' published a proof-of-concept named LegacyHive that allows non‑admin users to mount and modify other users' registry hives (a powerful local privilege escalation primitive) reportedly effective across supported Windows releases; Microsoft is investigating, while the update cycle also addressed multiple actively exploited SharePoint Server vulnerabilities added to CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities list.

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