CVE

CVE-2024-30051

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Analysis · May 20, 2026 · operations-desk
Two years of Patch Tuesdays, one message: the exploited Windows bug is almost always a privilege escalation
Across 2025 and 2026, Microsoft kept fixing already-exploited Windows flaws, storage drivers, Hyper-V, the network stack, even a 20-year-old third-party modem driver. They don't each need their own post. Together they make one point about patching Windows fast.
Analysis · May 20, 2026 · The Commentary Desk
The FBI dismantled QakBot in 2023. In 2024 it was test-driving a Windows zero-day.
CVE-2024-30051 is a DWM Core Library privilege escalation to SYSTEM, used as a zero-day. Kaspersky tied it to QakBot, the botnet taken down nine months earlier, and found the exploit was already in several groups' hands before the patch.