patch-management

Microsoft’s August Patch Tuesday landed as a heavy, cross‑cutting security package that mixes high‑severity remote code execution (RCE) flaws, a publicly disclosed Kerberos elevation‑of‑privilege issue, and several cloud‑centric patches that were already mitigated on the service side—creating a...

Microsoft pushed its August Patch Tuesday cumulative updates on August 12–13, 2025, delivering the monthly security rollups that fix a broad range of vulnerabilities across Windows client and server platforms—most notably a publicly disclosed privilege‑escalation bug in Windows Kerberos...

Title: Urgent: CVE-2025-49707 — Azure Virtual Machines Improper Access Control Allows Local Spoofing (What IT Teams Must Do Now) Summary Microsoft has published guidance for CVE-2025-49707: an improper access-control vulnerability in Azure Virtual Machines that allows an authorized attacker to...

Microsoft security telemetry and third‑party trackers identify a newly disclosed spoofing flaw in the Windows Security App that lets a locally authorized user manipulate file names or paths and present forged or misleading security UI and alerts — a vulnerability cataloged publicly under the...

Microsoft’s advisory for CVE-2025-47954 describes an SQL Injection–style weakness in Microsoft SQL Server that can allow an authenticated actor to escalate privileges across the network — a high‑impact finding that requires immediate attention from DBAs and security teams. Background / Overview...

Microsoft has published an advisory for CVE-2025-53723: a numeric truncation error in Windows Hyper‑V that Microsoft classifies as an Elevation of Privilege (EoP) vulnerability; the vendor states an authorized local attacker can exploit the flaw to escalate privileges on affected hosts...

CVE-2025-48000 (note on numbering) — Windows Connected Devices Platform Service: use‑after‑free Elevation‑of‑Privilege Subtitle: Patch now — local authenticated attackers can escalate to SYSTEM via CDPSvc memory corruption Byline: Jane Doe — Senior Security Reporter, WindowsForum.com Short...

Microsoft’s advisory for CVE-2025-53719 describes an information‑disclosure bug in the Windows Routing and Remote Access Service (RRAS) caused by the use of an uninitialized resource, and administrators should treat any RRAS host exposed to untrusted networks as high priority for inspection and...

Microsoft released KB5064010 on August 12, 2025 — a hotpatch targeted at Windows 11 Enterprise LTSC 2024 (OS Build 26100.4851) that delivers a focused set of security fixes designed to take effect without the usual reboot required by standard cumulative updates. Background Microsoft’s hotpatch...

A use‑after‑free vulnerability in the Windows Ancillary Function Driver for WinSock (AFD.sys), tracked as CVE-2025-53137, can be abused by an authorized local user to escalate privileges to SYSTEM on affected Windows hosts — a high‑impact kernel vulnerability that follows a string of similar AFD...

CVE-2025-50176 — DirectX Graphics Kernel Type‑Confusion RCE Author: Security Analysis Desk — August 12, 2025 TL;DR CVE-2025-50176 is a type‑confusion vulnerability in the DirectX Graphics Kernel (dxgkrnl / DirectX graphics subsystem) that Microsoft categorizes as enabling local...

Microsoft has published an advisory for CVE-2025-50169, a race-condition flaw in the Windows SMB implementation that Microsoft says can allow an unauthorized attacker to execute code over a network by exploiting concurrent access to a shared resource with improper synchronization. The...

Title: CVE-2025-50162 — RRAS Heap-Based Buffer Overflow: What Windows admins need to know (deep-dive, triage & hardening guide) Summary (TL;DR) A heap-based buffer overflow has been disclosed in Microsoft’s Routing and Remote Access Service (RRAS) allowing remote code execution on affected...

A critical heap-based buffer overflow in the Windows Routing and Remote Access Service (RRAS) — tracked as CVE-2025-50160 by Microsoft — allows an attacker who can reach a vulnerable RRAS instance over the network to achieve remote code execution in the context of the service, with the potential...

Title: CVE-2025-49743 — Windows Graphics Component race-condition allows local privilege escalation: what admins need to know and do now Summary What it is: CVE-2025-49743 is an elevation-of-privilege (EoP) vulnerability in the Microsoft Graphics Component caused by a race condition (concurrent...

Title: CVE-2025-53761 — Use‑After‑Free in Microsoft PowerPoint (Local Code Execution) — What defenders need to know now Summary (TL;DR) Microsoft lists CVE-2025-53761 as a use‑after‑free vulnerability in Microsoft Office PowerPoint that “allows an unauthorized attacker to execute code locally.”...

Note: you supplied the MSRC page for CVE-2025-49758 . I attempted to programmatically fetch the MSRC content but the page is rendered with JavaScript and I could not retrieve the full advisory text automatically. Below I’ve written a thorough, actionable, and vendor-agnostic 2000+ word article...

Microsoft has confirmed an elevation-of-privilege flaw in Azure File Sync that can allow an authenticated, local attacker to escalate privileges on systems running the service — a serious risk for hybrid infrastructures that bridge on‑premises Windows servers and Azure file storage. Public...

CISA’s August 12 advisory roll-up catalogs seven Industrial Control Systems (ICS) security alerts — spanning building automation, power monitoring, OT data integrators, legacy web apps, rail telemetry, CAD/CAM tooling, and medical imaging servers — and signals that operators must act now to...

Microsoft has pushed a targeted component update for Copilot+ Windows 11 devices running on Qualcomm silicon: KB5065499, which updates the Image Processing AI component to version 1.2507.797.0 and is distributed automatically via Windows Update for devices running Windows 11, version 24H2...