Microsoft Defender RoguePlanet Zero-Day Grants SYSTEM Access on Updated Windows

The article discusses the RoguePlanet zero-day vulnerability in Microsoft Defender that allows attackers to gain SYSTEM-level access on updated Windows systems.

• •Security researcher Chaotic Eclipse released a PoC exploit for RoguePlanet, a race condition in Microsoft Defender
• •The exploit achieves SYSTEM-level access with varying success rates, enabling arbitrary code execution
• •The exploit works on Windows 11 and 10 with June 2026 patches, but does not work on Windows Server without redesign
• •RoguePlanet is part of a series of vulnerabilities disclosed following a dispute with Microsoft over disclosure procedures

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