Patch Tuesday – August 2025
- Triumvirate Cyber
- Aug 12, 2025
- 2 min read
Get the kids' lunches packed and send them off to the bus stop, because Microsoft is sending us back to school with their monthly patches for August 2025! 🚌 The updates for this month include fixes for 111 vulnerabilities including 13 rated as Critical.
Happy Patch Tuesday! On August 12, 2025, Microsoft released security updates for 111 vulnerabilities across 55 products. 13 of the vulnerabilities are rated as Critical, 91 as Important, 2 as rated as Moderate, 1 as Low, and 4 which do not require any action by sysadmins.
The monthly patch breakdown is provided below. As always, you can find more information on the specifics via the MSRC Security Update Guide at https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/
Patch Tuesday August 2025: Security Updates
Critical | # of Vulnerabilities |
Azure Stack | 1 |
Azure Virtual Machines | 2 |
Graphics Kernel | 1 |
Microsoft Graphics Component | 1 |
Microsoft Office | 2 |
Microsoft Office Word | 2 |
Role: Windows Hyper-V | 1 |
Windows GDI+ | 1 |
Windows Message Queuing | 1 |
Windows NTLM | 1 |
Important | # of Vulnerabilities |
Azure File Sync | 1 |
Azure Stack | 1 |
Desktop Windows Manager | 2 |
GitHub Copilot and Visual Studio | 1 |
Kernel Streaming WOW Thunk Service Driver | 1 |
Kernel Transaction Manager | 1 |
Microsoft Brokering File System | 1 |
Microsoft Dynamics 365 (on-premises) | 2 |
Microsoft Exchange Server | 5 |
Microsoft Graphics Component | 1 |
Microsoft Office | 1 |
Microsoft Office Excel | 5 |
Microsoft Office PowerPoint | 1 |
Microsoft Office SharePoint | 2 |
Microsoft Office Visio | 2 |
Microsoft Office Word | 2 |
Microsoft Teams | 1 |
Remote Access Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) EAP-TLS | 1 |
Remote Desktop Server | 1 |
Role: Windows Hyper-V | 4 |
SQL Server | 5 |
Storage Port Driver | 1 |
Web Deploy | 1 |
Windows Ancillary Function Driver for WinSock | 7 |
Windows Cloud Files Mini Filter Driver | 1 |
Windows Connected Devices Platform Service | 1 |
Windows DirectX | 2 |
Windows Distributed Transaction Coordinator | 1 |
Windows File Explorer | 1 |
Windows Installer | 1 |
Windows Kernel | 2 |
Windows Local Security Authority Subsystem Service (LSASS) | 1 |
Windows Media | 1 |
Windows Message Queuing | 3 |
Windows NT OS Kernel | 1 |
Windows NTFS | 1 |
Windows PrintWorkflowUserSvc | 1 |
Windows Push Notifications | 4 |
Windows Remote Desktop Services | 1 |
Windows Routing and Remote Access Service (RRAS) | 12 |
Windows Security App | 1 |
Windows SMB | 1 |
Windows StateRepository API | 1 |
Windows Subsystem for Linux | 1 |
Windows Win32K - GRFX | 2 |
Windows Win32K - ICOMP | 1 |
Moderate | # of Vulnerabilities |
Microsoft Edge for Android | 1 |
Windows Kerberos | 1 |
Low | # of Vulnerabilities |
Microsoft Edge for Android | 1 |
No Action Needed | # of Vulnerabilities |
Azure OpenAI | 1 |
Azure Portal | 1 |
Microsoft 365 Copilot's Business Chat | 2 |
