Researcher Releases FalconFlank PoC Showing Privilege Escalation in CrowdStrike Falcon
Researcher Releases FalconFlank PoC Showing Privilege Escalation in CrowdStrike Falcon
03 September 2026
The security researcher known as Chaotic Eclipse (aka INFINITE NIGHTMARE, MSNightmare, and Nightmare-Eclipse) has dropped a new zero-day dubbed FalconFlank, a privilege escalation flaw impacting Crowdstrike Falcon.
"FalconFlank is a 0day privilege escalation that abuses the office malicious macros remediation in CrowdStrike Falcon Sensor," the researcher said in a GitHub README file, adding