Microsoft released its most current Patch Tuesday updates on August 12, 2025, resolving a remarkable total of 107 flaws across its entire ecosystem. Solutions for one openly known zero-day flaw that poses a severe threat to corporate Windows systems are included in this update.
In Microsoft’s August 2025 patch, each vulnerability category has a specific number of bugs, as mentioned below:
44 Elevation of Privilege Vulnerabilities
35 Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities
18 Information Disclosure Vulnerabilities
4 Denial of Service Vulnerabilities
9 Spoofing Vulnerabilities
One of the most alarming problems in this release is a zero-day vulnerability discovered as CVE-2025-53779, which impacts Windows Kerberos
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CVE-2025-53766, found in GDI+, introduces a buffer overflow risk that could enable arbitrary code execution and was the factor of WinRAR 0-day vulnerability
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In Microsoft’s August 2025 Patch Tuesday, enterprise services have been fixed as well. Microsoft offered mitigations and silent patches for Azure services, including Copilot BizChat, Azure OpenAI, and parts of the Azure Portal, all of which had elevation-of-privilege and data leakage risk. Although Microsoft stated at the time of release that no active abuse of these flaws was known, the presence of a publicly known zero-day and numerous serious RCE vulnerabilities emphasizes the need for fast patch distribution.
