Microsoft's Patch Tuesday Deluge Continues With August Updates

Microsoft's August 2026 Patch Tuesday delivers fixes for 421 unique CVEs across Windows, Office, SharePoint, Azure and other products, including two zero-day vulnerabilities—an actively exploited elevation-of-privilege (CVE-2026-68820) and a publicly known flaw (CVE-2026-62832)—and several near-maximum-severity remote code execution and elevation-of-privilege bugs (notably CVE-2026-62878). Security experts urge organizations to prioritize patching high-risk and wormable issues, especially on Internet-facing servers and systems where the vulnerable Windows components or drivers are present.