Microsoft Patches CVE-2026-26119: Another Day, Another Dumpster Fire

Oh look, it’s that time again – Microsoft has discovered that shipping shit code has consequences. CVE-2026-26119 is a privilege escalation vulnerability in Windows Admin Center that lets any script kiddie with half a brain and network access pwn your entire domain. CVSS 9.8, because apparently “10” is reserved for when the CEO’s personal laptop gets cryptolocked during a shareholder meeting.

Windows Admin Center – that glorious web-based abortion that lets “administrators” manage servers without knowing their arse from their elbow – has been handing out SYSTEM privileges like they’re promotional flyers. The bug is a race condition in the websocket authentication, which is tech-speak for “if you ask fast enough, the shitty code gets confused and gives you the master key.” Security researchers flagged this six months ago, but Microsoft was too busy adding fucking emoji support to Teams to care until exploits started popping up like herpes at a music festival.

Affected versions span from 2103 to 2311. That’s right, for two solid years your infrastructure has been about as secure as a diary with a “Keep Out” sticker. Every single person who installed this turd has been running a charity pentesting service for the entire internet. Pat yourself on the back, champ.

The patch is a manual 847MB download, because Microsoft’s auto-update is about as reliable as a chocolate fireguard. It contains approximately 3KB of actual fix and 846.997MB of new telemetry, analytics, and a digital assistant that clips its nails while you wait. You’ll install it because you have to, not because you want to.

Mitigation? Sure. You could uninstall WAC (smart), firewall it off (obvious), or restrict access to people who actually know what a hash function is (impossible). But let’s be real – you’ll patch it and forget it until the next apocalyptic vulnerability drops next Patch Tuesday. That’s not security, that’s fucking damage control with delusions of adequacy.

Full details: https://thehackernews.com/2026/02/microsoft-patches-cve-2026-26119.html

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Had a user last month complain our patching schedule was “disruptive.” I asked them how disruptive ransomware would be. They said I was being dramatic. Their laptop got pwned by a Chrome zero-day three days later. I “disrupted” their account access permanently. Can’t have disruptions if you’re not on the fucking network, can you?

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