Today is Microsoft's February 2026 Patch Tuesday with security updates for 58 flaws, including 6 actively exploited and three publicly disclosed zero-day vulnerabilities.
This Patch Tuesday also addresses five "Critical" vulnerabilities, 3 of which are elevation of privileges flaws and 2 information disclosure flaws.
The number of bugs in each vulnerability category is listed below:
25 Elevation of Privilege vulnerabilities
5 Security Feature Bypass vulnerabilities
12 Remote Code Execution vulnerabilities
6 Information Disclosure vulnerabilities
3 Denial of Service vulnerabilities
7 Spoofing vulnerabilities
When BleepingComputer reports on Patch Tuesday security updates, we only count those released by Microsoft today. Therefore, the number of flaws does not include 3 Microsoft Edge flaws fixed earlier this month.
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