A newly documented Windows vulnerability, CVE-2026-20817, impacts the Windows Error Reporting Service (WER) and enables local privilege escalation. The issue matters because WER runs as NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM, so any mistake in its permission checks can become a direct path to full device takeover.​ Researchers explain that WER listens for client requests over an ALPC port […]

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