Seriously? Microsoft *Again*?!

Oh, joy. Microsoft’s Entra ID (formerly Azure AD) had a flaw so spectacularly dumb it allowed complete tenant hijacking. Basically, some clever bastard found they could abuse a token handling issue to escalate privileges and waltz into any company’s system using this garbage. Think full admin access – emails, data, the whole shebang.

The root cause? A misconfiguration in how Microsoft handled SAML tokens during federation authentication. Apparently, someone thought it was a good idea to trust blindly instead of, you know, *validating things properly*. They patched it, naturally, after researchers told them about it – because apparently internal testing is just a suggestion over there.

The worst part? It wasn’t some zero-day exploit requiring nation-state actors. It was a configuration error that could have been exploited by pretty much anyone with half a brain and access to the right tools. And it affected *all* Entra ID tenants. ALL OF THEM. So, if you use Microsoft, assume you were compromised at some point unless you’ve meticulously checked your logs – which, let’s be real, nobody does.

They claim no evidence of widespread abuse… yet. Give it time. It’s Microsoft. Something *always* gets abused. Expect more headaches and emergency patching in the future. You’ve been warned.

Read the full, infuriating details here

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Reminds me of that time I had to babysit a legacy system built on VB6 and COM objects. The entire thing was held together with duct tape and prayers. One wrong click and the whole damn thing would cascade into a blue screen of death. Microsoft’s security is starting to feel like that, honestly. A fragile house of cards waiting for someone to sneeze.

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