BlueHammer: Windows zero-day exploit leaked

A buggy but functional proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit for an unpatched Windows local privilege escalation vulnerability dubbed BlueHammer has been published on GitHub by someone who goes by the handle Chaotic Eclipse and Nightmare Eclipse. Several security researchers have fixed the bugs in the exploit and made it work on patched Windows 10, 11, and Windows Server systems, and the question now is whether Microsoft is planning or working on a fix. The BlueHammer PoC exploit …