Today is Microsoft's August 2025 Patch Tuesday, which includes security updates for 107 flaws, including one publicly disclosed zero-day vulnerability in Windows Kerberos.
This Patch Tuesday also fixes thirteen "Critical" vulnerabilities, nine of which are remote code execution vulnerabilities, three are information disclosure, and one is elevation of privileges.
The number of bugs in each vulnerability category is listed below:
44 Elevation of Privilege Vulnerabilities
35 Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities
18 Information Disclosure Vulnerabilities
4 Denial of Service Vulnerabilities
9 Spoofing Vulnerabilities
When BleepingComputer reports on the Patch Tuesday security updates, we only count those released on Patch Tuesday. Therefore, the number of flaws does not include Mariner, Azure, and Microsoft Edge bugs fixed earlier this month.
To learn more about the non-security updates released today, you can review our dedicated articles on the Windows 11 KB5063878 & KB5063875 cumulative updates and the Windows 10 KB5063709 cumulative update.
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