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Monitor for suspicious debugging activity
The fact that this vulnerability received a CVSS score of 7.8 (HIGH) is appropriate, though by today's standards, any reliable local privilege escalation to SYSTEM would likely score higher.
CVE-2006-2492: The Word Document That Changed Everything
In May 2006, a single malicious Word document exposed a vulnerability so dangerous that Microsoft issued an emergency patch outside their normal update cycle—something they rarely did back then.
CVE-2007-0671: The Excel Zero-Day That Rewrote the Rules of Office Security
When an "unspecified vulnerability" starts showing up in targeted zero-day attacks with a file named "Exploit-MSExcel.h," you know Microsoft's having a very bad day.
CVE-2024-7347: NGINX's MP4 Module Memory Overflow Threatens Video Streaming Infrastructure
When the world's most popular web server has a vulnerability in its video processing module, millions of streaming services just became potential targets for denial-of-service attacks.
HTTP Request Smuggling: Desync Attacks in 2026
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