Researcher Drops New Microsoft Defender PoC Showing ShieldBreak Patch Can Be Bypassed
Researcher Drops New Microsoft Defender PoC Showing ShieldBreak Patch Can Be Bypassed
09 September 2026
The security researcher known as Chaotic Eclipse has dropped a proof-of-concept (PoC) for yet another zero-day in Microsoft Defender.
The vulnerability, codenamed ShieldCrash, is assessed to be a patch bypass for CVE-2026-69414 (CVSS score: 7.8), also called ShieldBreak, which the researcher reported last month.
"Microsoft has failed to properly patch ShieldBreak CVE-2026-69414," Chaotic