Microsoft Patches Record 1,413 Flaws, Including Exploited Windows Shell Bug

The Hacker News · Wednesday, 14 October 2026 at 04:34 (2h ago) · Original article ↗

Microsoft on Tuesday shattered its own Patch Tuesday record by shipping patches for a whopping 1,413 vulnerabilities, including one that it said has come under active exploitation.

These include 1,102 flaws in Windows, 134 in Office, 61 in Developer Tools, 36 in SharePoint Server, and 22 in SQL Server. Of these, more than 670 relate to privilege escalation, followed by over 300 remote code

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