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Microsoft Issues Emergency Fixes for CVE-2026-111497

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  • Microsoft released emergency out-of-band updates for .NET, Visual Studio and PowerShell to fix CVE-2026-111497.
  • OpenAI Codex Security reported a Brotli buffer overflow on October 22 that could let unauthenticated attackers read or corrupt memory.
  • Microsoft warned the flaw could cause information disclosure, denial-of-service or privilege escalation and rated exploitation “more likely”.
  • Wiz said 91% of cloud environments have vulnerable resources, with 82% exposing Node.js instances.