Weekly briefing
Week 20 · 11 May – 17 May 2026 UTC · assess the changes, then plan the next dates.
Act on1
Coming up8
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Microsoft Windows Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
CVE-2008-4250
Same day: CISA KEV deadline: Microsoft DirectX NULL Byte Overwrite Vulnerability; CISA KEV deadline: Microsoft Internet Explorer Use-After-Free Vulnerability; CISA KEV deadline: Microsoft Defender Link Following Vulnerability; CISA KEV deadline: Microsoft Defender Denial of Service Vulnerability
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Patch Tuesday, 9 June 2026
The second Tuesday of the month, when Microsoft releases security updates for Windows, Office, and servers.
Changed3
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WAF - WAF Release - 2026-05-15 - Emergency
Cloudflare WAF changelog
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VMSA-2026-0003: VMware Fusion updates address privilege escalation vulnerability (CVE-2026-41702)
VMware security advisories (Broadcom)
How this list is chosen
Changes from 11 May 2026 – 17 May 2026 UTC and dates due up to 16 Jun 2026. Dates are the source's own, or labelled as the day ChangeIntel observed a change; never inferred effective dates.
Ranked by kind: exploited vulnerabilities, then up to 7 dates, open known issues, and other notable changes, with at most one entry per feed. Service incidents are on the status board; security baseline downloads, first captures of a document, and metadata-only documentation checks are left out. This is a view of retained evidence, not a reconstruction of everything known at the time.
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