Elevation-of-Privilege Vulns Dominate Microsoft's Patch Tuesday

Microsoft's August 2025 security update addresses 111 CVEs, with a large proportion (about 39%) enabling post-compromise elevation of privilege and several critical remote code execution flaws (including two rated 9.8 and one CVSS 10.0 cloud service issue that was already mitigated). The report calls out high-priority fixes — SQL Server injection flaws, SharePoint RCE, Windows graphics/GDI+ RCEs that require no user interaction, and the BadSuccessor Kerberos EoP zero-day disclosure — and urges immediate patching, segmentation, and compensating controls where updates cannot be applied.