DWM

2026-05-133 minElastic Security Labshigh

Researchers successfully patch-diffed a Windows Desktop Window Manager (DWM) vulnerability using LLMs, drastically reducing exploit development time. The vulnerability is a Use-After-Free in dwmcore.dll that can be exploited via the DirectComposition API, combined with a novel heap spray and CFG bypass, to achieve Local Privilege Escalation to SYSTEM.