Microsoft Patch Tuesday for August 2025 — Snort rules and prominent vulnerabilities
Summary: Microsoft's August 2025 security update covers 111 vulnerabilities, 13 of them rated critical, and Microsoft observed none of them being actively exploited in the wild. Nine of the critical entries are remote code execution flaws in Windows kernel, MSMQ, Hyper-V, Office and GDI+, including CVE-2025-53766 and CVE-2025-50165, both scored 9.8.
What you should know: Two of the critical flaws carry a 9.8 score, and CVE-2025-50165 can execute code over a network with no user intervention from a JPEG embedded in an Office or third-party document, so the patch window is the only control standing between a crafted image and code execution.
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- Topics
- Vulnerabilities & Patching
- Mentions
- CVE-2025-50176CVE-2025-50177CVE-2025-53733CVE-2025-53740CVE-2025-53766CVE-2025-53778CVE-2025-53781
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