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VulnerabilityTenable·1 week ago

Microsoft's August 2026 Patch Tuesday addresses 398 CVEs (CVE-2026-68820)

Microsoft's August 2026 Patch Tuesday addressed 398 CVEs across a broad range of products, with 42 rated critical and three zero-days including one actively exploited in the wild. Notable vulnerabilities include a critical remote code execution flaw in Windows Deployment Services TFTP Server with a CVSS score of 9.8, a critical Windows DHCP Server RCE affecting unauthenticated remote attackers, and the actively exploited Windows Ancillary Function Driver for WinSock elevation of privilege vulnerability. Elevation of privilege vulnerabilities accounted for 40.7% of this month's patches, followed by remote code execution vulnerabilities at 27.1%.

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