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July 2026 Patch Tuesday forecast: Is CVE tracking still practical?

Help Net Securityby @helpnetsecurity ()4 min read1
Analyze CVE-2026-50656 with Vani AIImpact, affected versions, exploitation, mitigations and detection

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CVE-2026-50656
Microsoft is aware of an elevation of privilege in the Microsoft Malware Protection Engine in Microsoft Defender publicly referred to as "RoguePlanet "
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I was off by a month in my forecast of record-setting CVE releases from Microsoft. In June, we saw the deluge of over 200 reported CVEs that I expected in May. There were 116 CVEs for Windows 11 and 104 for Windows 10.

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