{"id":20001,"date":"2026-04-22T09:29:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T09:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/22\/microsoft-patches-critical-asp-net-core-cve-2026-40372-privilege-escalation-bug-infothehackernews-com-the-hacker-news\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T09:29:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T09:29:00","slug":"microsoft-patches-critical-asp-net-core-cve-2026-40372-privilege-escalation-bug-infothehackernews-com-the-hacker-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/22\/microsoft-patches-critical-asp-net-core-cve-2026-40372-privilege-escalation-bug-infothehackernews-com-the-hacker-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Patches Critical ASP.NET Core CVE-2026-40372 Privilege Escalation Bug info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has released out-of-band updates to address a security vulnerability in ASP.NET Core that could allow an attacker to escalate privileges.<br \/>\nThe vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-40372, carries a CVSS score of 9.1 out of 10.0. It&#8217;s rated Important in severity. An anonymous researcher has been credited with discovering and reporting the flaw.<br \/>\n&#8220;Improper verification of cryptographic<a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2026\/04\/microsoft-patches-critical-aspnet-core.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has released out-of-band updates to address a security vulnerability in ASP.NET Core that could allow an attacker to escalate privileges. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-40372, carries a CVSS score of 9.1 out of 10.0. It&#8217;s rated Important in severity. An anonymous researcher has been credited with discovering and reporting the flaw. &#8220;Improper verification of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20002,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}