Security Update Review for August 2025 Patch Tuesday Releases by Microsoft and Adobe
In its August 2025 Patch Tuesday release, Microsoft addressed a total of 119 vulnerabilities across various products and services. These vulnerabilities ranged from Elevation of Privilege (EoP), Remote Code Execution (RCE), Information Disclosure, Denial of Service (DoS), and Spoofing.
One zero-day vulnerability was addressed, a Windows Kerberos EoP flaw (CVE-2025-53779). This vulnerability, if successfully exploited, could grant SYSTEM privileges to an unauthenticated attacker.
Microsoft also patched several RCE vulnerabilities. These included an untrusted pointer dereference flaw in the Microsoft Graphics Component (CVE-2025-50165), a DirectX Graphics Kernel RCE (CVE-2025-50176), and a GDI+ RCE (CVE-2025-53766).
Two EoP vulnerabilities were found in Microsoft Office. CVE-2025-53731 and CVE-2025-53740 were patched, both of which, if exploited, could potentially grant SYSTEM privileges.
In the realm of Windows, several EoP vulnerabilities were addressed. CVE-2025-50168 was an issue in Win32k, a type confusion flaw in Windows Win32K - ICOMP. CVE-2025-53132 was an elevation of privilege vulnerability in Win32k, and CVE-2025-53147 was an EoP vulnerability in the Windows Ancillary Function Driver for WinSock.
Improper access control flaws were also fixed. An improper access control flaw in Azure Virtual Machines (CVE-2025-49707) could allow an authenticated attacker to perform spoofing locally. An unauthenticated attacker could disclose information over a network in Azure Stack due to an improper authentication flaw (CVE-2025-53793).
In addition to Microsoft's updates, Adobe released 13 security advisories to address 68 vulnerabilities in various Adobe products.
Updates were provided for vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft Graphics Component, Remote Desktop Server, Windows Hyper-V, SQL Server, Windows NTFS, Windows NTLM, and more.
Microsoft's August 2025 Patch Tuesday updates included 13 critical and 91 important severity vulnerabilities. Users are encouraged to install these updates to protect their systems from potential attacks.
Samsung also released its August 2025 security update specifically for the Galaxy S23 series. Users are advised to check for and install any available updates for their devices.
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