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Microsoft Patch Tuesday for August 2026 — Snort rules and prominent vulnerabilities
Microsoft has released its monthly security update for August 2026, which includes 421 vulnerabilities affecting a range of products, including 62 that Microsoft marked as "critical." Microsoft notes that 1 of the vulnerabilities disclosed this month have been exploited in the wild CVE-2026-68820 is an elevation of privilege vulnerability affecting Windows Ancillary Function Driver for WinSock. A Use After Free vulnerability could allow an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally. This vulnerability has a CVSS base score of 7. 0. Out of 62 "critical" vulnerabilities, 40 are remote code execution (RCE) vulnerabilities. Microsoft considers exploitation of the following vulnerabilities more likely. CVE-2026-62893 is a remote code execution vulnerability affecting Windows Deployment Services TFTP Server.
ZDI-26-544: Microsoft Windows Deployment Services Use-After-Free Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
This vulnerability allows network-adjacent attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected installations of Microsoft Windows Server. Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability. However, only systems with Windows Deployment Services enabled are vulnerable. The ZDI has assigned a CVSS rating of 7. 5. The following CVEs are assigned: CVE-2026-62893.
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