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Patch Tuesday 2026 coverage on WindowsForum.com documents Microsoft's monthly security updates for Windows 11, Office, and Azure throughout 2026. Key themes include critical Office vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-26110, CVE-2026-26113) enabling preview pane remote code execution, the YellowKey BitLocker bypass fixed in June, and the AppID information disclosure CVE-2026-45594. March 2026 updates introduced Sysmon as an optional Windows 11 feature and addressed an Excel Copilot Agent zero-click exfiltration flaw (CVE-2026-26144) plus an Azure MCP Server Tools SSRF (CVE-2026-26118). Stability issues with KB5079473 were also reported. The tag covers security patches, zero-days, and update guidance for Windows administrators.
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    June 2026 Patch Tuesday Fixes YellowKey BitLocker WinRE Bypass (Plus GreenPlasma/MiniPlasma)

    Microsoft’s June 2026 Patch Tuesday updates, released on June 9, fixed three publicly disclosed Windows zero-days tied to researcher Chaotic Eclipse, including YellowKey, a BitLocker bypass that abused Windows Recovery Environment behavior to expose protected drives on affected Windows 11 and...
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    CVE-2026-45594 AppID Info Disclosure: June 2026 Patch Guidance for Windows Admins

    Microsoft disclosed CVE-2026-45594 on June 9, 2026, as an Important-rated Windows Application Identity information disclosure vulnerability in the AppID subsystem that can let an authorized local attacker expose sensitive information on affected Windows systems. The flaw is not the sort of...
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    Windows 11 KB5079473 March 2026 Patch Tuesday Crashes and Instability

    Microsoft’s March Patch Tuesday cumulative update for Windows 11 (KB5079473), released March 10, 2026, has triggered a small but noisy wave of user reports describing severe stability problems — complete freezes, repeated restarts, Blue Screens of Death (BSODs), and applications that simply...
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    Patch Tuesday 2026: Office vulnerabilities and Windows 11 updates with Sysmon

    Microsoft’s March 10, 2026 Patchday reshaped the immediate priorities for Office administrators and endpoint defenders: a focused set of Office fixes—headed by a high‑impact local privilege escalation in Office and several document‑parsing flaws—arrived alongside a broader Microsoft Patch...
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    Excel Copilot Agent Zero-Click Exfiltration: Patch CVE-2026-26144 Now

    Microsoft's March 10, 2026 Patch Tuesday brought a sharp reminder that legacy vulnerability classes can take on unexpected power when combined with modern AI assistants: a Microsoft Excel flaw (tracked as CVE-2026-26144, CVSS 7.5) can be weaponized as a zero-click data-exfiltration path when...
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    Office 2026 CVEs 26110 26113 Patch Tuesday: Patch Now for Preview Pane RCE

    Microsoft shipped fixes for two recently disclosed critical Microsoft Office vulnerabilities—CVE‑2026‑26110 and CVE‑2026‑26113—that can lead to arbitrary code execution when a crafted file is processed locally, and defenders should treat these updates as high priority because the Outlook and...
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    Urgent Office Patch: Fix CVE-2026-26110 and CVE-2026-26113 Now

    Microsoft has released patches for two newly disclosed critical vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office—tracked as CVE-2026-26110 and CVE-2026-26113—and administrators and everyday users should treat the update as urgent: both flaws allow remote code execution in the context of the current user and...
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    Urgent Patch for CVE-2026-26118 SSRF in Azure MCP Server Tools

    Microsoft issued security updates on March 10, 2026 that address CVE-2026-26118, a high‑severity elevation‑of‑privilege vulnerability in the Azure MCP (Model Context Protocol) Server Tools family that security researchers and multiple vendor trackers describe as a server‑side request forgery...
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    CVE-2026-26134: Microsoft Office Local Privilege Escalation Explained

    Microsoft’s March 10, 2026 security roll‑up added a sharp new item to defenders’ to‑do lists: CVE‑2026‑26134, a Microsoft Office vulnerability described by the vendor as an integer overflow or wraparound that can be leveraged by an authorized local user to achieve elevation of privilege, and...
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    SCOM CVE-2026-20967: Authenticated Network Privilege Escalation Patch

    Microsoft released a security update on March 10, 2026 addressing an authenticated, network-based elevation-of-privilege (EoP) vulnerability in System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) tracked as CVE-2026-20967 — a bug stemming from improper input validation that can allow an authorized but...
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    Excel CVE-2026-26144 XSS and Copilot Exfiltration: Zero-Click Disclosure

    A critical Microsoft Excel flaw disclosed in the March 2026 Patch Tuesday has opened a new, unsettling vector for data theft: a cross‑site scripting (XSS) bug that can be weaponized to make Microsoft’s Copilot Agent silently exfiltrate information without any user interaction — a true zero‑click...
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    CVE-2026-25180 Patch Windows Graphics Info Disclosure: Mitigation Guide

    Microsoft has recorded CVE‑2026‑25180 as an information disclosure defect in the Windows Graphics Component — an out‑of‑bounds read that can permit an unprivileged, local actor to leak sensitive memory from affected systems — and administrators should treat the advisory as actionable: verify...
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    Microsoft Patch for Kerberos Security Feature Bypass CVE-2026-24297

    Microsoft released a security update on March 10, 2026 that addresses CVE‑2026‑24297, a Windows Kerberos "Security Feature Bypass" vulnerability caused by a race condition in the Kerberos implementation; Microsoft classifies the flaw as Important and has published a patch as part of the March...
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    CVE-2026-24295: Patch Windows Device Association Service Local Privilege Escalation

    Microsoft has recorded CVE-2026-24295 as an Important local elevation‑of‑privilege vulnerability in the Windows Device Association Service (service name: DeviceAssociation), and administrators should treat the entry as a verified vendor advisory while urgently mapping it to their SKU-specific...
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    Urgent Patch CVE-2026-24288: Windows WWAN Driver Heap Overflow Enables RCE

    Microsoft has published an advisory for CVE-2026-24288, a heap-based buffer overflow in the Windows Mobile Broadband driver that Microsoft classifies as an Important remote code execution risk and for which a patch was released on March 10, 2026; administrators should treat this as urgent for...
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    February 2026 Windows 11 Patch Tuesday: KB5077181 and KB5075941 with Secure Boot CA 2023

    Microsoft released the February 2026 Patch Tuesday cumulative updates for Windows 11 — KB5077181 for Windows 11 versions 25H2 and 24H2, and KB5075941 for 23H2 — delivering this month's security fixes, servicing stack updates, and several quality improvements. These packages do not introduce...
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    February 2026 Windows 11 Updates Expand Secure Boot CA 2023 Ahead of June Expiry

    Microsoft’s February 10, 2026 cumulative updates for Windows 11 quietly carried more than routine security fixes — they continued a staged rollout that will refresh the operating system’s Secure Boot certificate chain ahead of a looming expiry window that begins in June 2026. What looks like a...
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    Microsoft Patch Tuesday Fixes Notepad Markdown RCE CVE-2026-20841

    Microsoft’s February Patch Tuesday closed a dangerous loophole in the modern Notepad app that could let an attacker turn a simple Markdown (.md) file into a remote code execution (RCE) trap — a single click on a crafted link inside Notepad’s Markdown view could launch unverified protocols and...
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    CVE-2026-21533: EoP in Windows Remote Desktop Services and Patch Tuesday

    Microsoft’s Security Update Guide records a new entry for CVE-2026-21533 — an Elevation of Privilege (EoP) vulnerability in Windows Remote Desktop Services (RDS) — and security vendors pushed detection and IPS signatures the same day as February’s Patch Tuesday, making this a high‑priority item...
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    Windows 11 January 2026 Patch Rollout: OOB Updates and Boot Issues

    Microsoft’s January update roll-out has already cost IT teams a sleepless weekend and forced two emergency fixes inside a single fortnight — a chaotic start to Windows 11 patching in 2026 that raises fresh questions about testing, packaging, and communication for Microsoft’s flagship desktop OS...
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