{"id":213202,"date":"2026-05-13T09:46:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T13:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/13\/microsofts-mdash-ai-system-finds-16-windows-flaws-fixed-in-patch-tuesday-2\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T10:20:30","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T14:20:30","slug":"microsofts-mdash-ai-system-finds-16-windows-flaws-fixed-in-patch-tuesday-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/13\/microsofts-mdash-ai-system-finds-16-windows-flaws-fixed-in-patch-tuesday-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft&#8217;s MDASH AI System Finds 16 Windows Flaws Fixed in Patch Tuesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2026\/05\/microsofts-mdash-ai-system-finds-16.html\">Microsoft&#8217;s MDASH AI System Finds 16 Windows Flaws Fixed in Patch Tuesday<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2026\/05\/microsofts-mdash-ai-system-finds-16.html\">https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2026\/05\/microsofts-mdash-ai-system-finds-16.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-13 09:46:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"thehackernews.com\">thehackernews.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Microsoft Unveils MDASH:<\/strong> Microsoft has introduced MDASH (multi-model agentic scanning harness), a new AI-driven system designed to enhance vulnerability discovery and remediation on a large scale.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Agents and Models:<\/strong> MDASH orchestrates more than 100 specialized AI agents across multiple models to autonomously discover, validate, and prove exploitable defects in complex codebases such as Windows.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Structured Pipeline:<\/strong> The system operates through a series of steps: analyzing the code to build threat models, flagging potential issues with auditor agents, validating findings with debater agents, grouping similar findings, and proving vulnerabilities.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Model Configuration:<\/strong> MDASH utilizes a mix of state-of-the-art (SOTA) and distilled models, with SOTA models for reasoning and validation using high-volume passes, and an independent SOTA model for independent counterpoint. 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