Microsoft Patch Tuesday August 2026, (Tue, Aug 11th)
This month we got patches for 418 vulnerabilities. Of these, 62 are critical, 1 is being exploited in the wild, and 2 were publicly disclosed as zero-days. Notable fixes include Windows privilege escalation, container tampering, and critical QUIC and DNS Server remote code execution bugs. A few vulnerabilities worth mentioning: Windows Ancillary Function Driver for WinSock Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability (CVE-2026-68820) This Important-severity elevation of privilege vulnerability is…
KEV ✓ EPSS 0.02 CVSS 9.8 CVE-2026-62815 CVE-2026-62832 CVE-2026-62878 CVE-2026-68820 CVE-2026-72971 Microsoft US