Years after claiming DogWalk wasn’t a vulnerability, Microsoft confirms flaw is being exploited and issues patch

This week Microsoft finally released a patch for a zero-day security flaw being exploited by hackers, that the company had claimed since 2019 was not actually a vulnerability. The volte-face from Microsoft relates to “DogWalk”, a remote code execution vulnerability in the Microsoft Windows Support Diagnostic Tool (MSDT), affecting all Windows versions going back as far as Windows 7 and Server 2008.

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