June 8, 2023, 2:59 p.m. | info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)

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Details have emerged about a now-patched actively exploited security flaw in Microsoft Windows that could be abused by a threat actor to gain elevated privileges on affected systems.
The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-29336, is rated 7.8 for severity and concerns an elevation of privilege bug in the Win32k component.
"An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain

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