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Microsoft warns of max severity Entra ID flaw exploited in attacks

Microsoft has patched multiple maximum-severity vulnerabilities in Entra ID, Azure Arc, and Exchange Online that allowed attackers to gain remote code execution and escalate privileges.

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Microsoft has patched multiple maximum-severity vulnerabilities in Entra ID, Azure Arc, and Exchange Online that allowed attackers to gain remote code execution and escalate privileges. The first one, discovered by Microsoft principal security engineer Robert Fitzpatrick and tracked as CVE-2026-69836 , is a critical flaw in the Entra ID cloud-based IAM platform that allowed threat actors with no privileges to gain code execution in low-complexity attacks.

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