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Nearly 22,000 Microsoft Exchange servers remain exposed to critical security flaw (CVE-2026-62911)

The critical vulnerability CVE-2026-62911 (CVSS 8.0 HIGH) is an authentication bypass by capture-replay in Microsoft Exchange Server, allowing authorized attackers to elevate privileges over a network. It affects Microsoft Exchange Server 2016, and the fixed version is 15.02.2562.046. Despite the patch being available, nearly 22,000 servers globally remain unpatched.
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Nearly 22,000 Microsoft Exchange servers remain unpatched against CVE-2026-62911, a critical authentication bypass vulnerability, according to daily scans from the Shadowserver Foundation. The United States and Germany top the list with 6,200 and 5,100 unpatched servers. CVE-2026-62911 is a critical severity vulnerability, and Microsoft describes it as “authentication bypass by capture-replay in Microsoft Exchange Server,” which allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges over a network. Microsoft released the fix on August 11, 2026, and … More → The post Nearly 22,000 Microsoft Exchange servers remain exposed to critical security flaw (CVE-2026-62911) appeared first on Help Net Security .

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