{"id":188946,"date":"2026-02-19T12:40:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T17:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/19\/microsoft-patches-cve-2026-26119-privilege-escalation-in-windows-admin-center\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T15:50:43","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T20:50:43","slug":"microsoft-patches-cve-2026-26119-privilege-escalation-in-windows-admin-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/19\/microsoft-patches-cve-2026-26119-privilege-escalation-in-windows-admin-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Patches CVE-2026-26119 Privilege Escalation in Windows Admin Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2026\/02\/microsoft-patches-cve-2026-26119.html\">Microsoft Patches CVE-2026-26119 Privilege Escalation in Windows Admin Center<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2026\/02\/microsoft-patches-cve-2026-26119.html\">https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2026\/02\/microsoft-patches-cve-2026-26119.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-19 12:40:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"thehackernews.com\">thehackernews.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Author: <a href=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p> Using an unordered list, summarize the following article with between 4 and 8 key points.<br \/>\n\ue804Ravie Lakshmanan\ue802Feb 19, 2026Vulnerability \/ Network Security<br \/>\nMicrosoft has disclosed a now-patched security flaw in Windows Admin Center that could allow an attacker to escalate their privileges.<br \/>\nWindows Admin Center is a locally deployed, browser-based management tool set that lets users manage their Windows Clients, Servers, and Clusters without the need for connecting to the cloud.<br \/>\nThe high-severity vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-26119, carries a CVSS score of 8.8 out of a maximum of 10.0<br \/>\n&#8220;Improper authentication in Windows Admin Center allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges over a network,&#8221; Microsoft said in an advisory released on February 17, 2026. &#8220;The attacker would gain the rights of the user that is running the affected application.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft credited Semperis researcher Andrea Pierini with discovering and reporting the vulnerability. It&#8217;s worth mentioning that the security issue was patched by the tech giant in Windows Admin Center version 2511 released in December 2025.\u00a0<br \/>\nWhile the Windows maker makes no mention of this vulnerability being exploited in the wild, it has been tagged with an &#8220;Exploitation More Likely&#8221; assessment.<br \/>\nTechnical details related to CVE-2026-26119 are presently under wraps, but that could change soon. In a post shared on LinkedIn, Pierini said the vulnerability could &#8220;allow a full domain compromise starting from a standard user&#8221; under certain conditions.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft Patches CVE-2026-26119 Privilege Escalation in Windows Admin Center https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2026\/02\/microsoft-patches-cve-2026-26119.html Publish Date: 2026-02-19 12:40:00 Source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188947,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiTYrWKU78qUjsLRxRje4c7MEejHM-e4bg7D2mFbFEomGbCI39Um78JNkCJKcjrcH2FYinO-dVUiV0_rB60jmErrc4lyMkYOK-qIX3HnYCFJ8aWfFwcnaZOHe_38JSgbLPnVqWrQaXhvbXmMCAaJpb6qnANjxjsqB3S4NM89kemycwHA8kDGlwrS-306oP8\/s1600\/windows-admin.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[29,27],"class_list":["post-188946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-network-security","tag-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188946"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188946"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":188948,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188946\/revisions\/188948"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}