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Microsoft August 2025 Patch Tuesday fixes 111 flaws

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Microsoft rolled out August 2025 Patch Tuesday fixes for 111 security flaws across its software portfolio, including a publicly disclosed Windows Kerberos zero-day. The release spans Edge, Exchange Server hybrid deployments, and cloud services, and 16 vulnerabilities were rated Critical. Microsoft said some cloud-service issues in Azure OpenAI, Azure Portal, and Microsoft 365 Copilot BizChat had already been remediated and required no customer action.

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  1. 13.08.2025 11:47 1 articles · 9mo ago

    Microsoft releases August 2025 Patch Tuesday fixes for 111 flaws

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    Microsoft released fixes for 111 security flaws across its software portfolio, including CVE-2025-53779, a publicly disclosed Windows Kerberos privilege-escalation zero-day tied to relative path traversal and the BadSuccessor dMSA technique, and CVE-2025-53786 affecting Microsoft Exchange Server hybrid deployments. Microsoft also addressed 16 vulnerabilities in Microsoft Edge since the previous Patch Tuesday update.

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