Microsoft Defender Spoofing Flaw Enables Privilege Escalation and AD Access

A newly disclosed spoofing vulnerability (CVE-2025-26685) in Microsoft Defender for Identity (MDI) enables unauthenticated attackers to capture Net-NTLM hashes of critical Directory Service Accounts (DSAs), potentially compromising Active Directory environments. Rated 6.5 (Medium) on the CVSS v3.1 scale, this flaw…