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Patch Tuesday August 2026: A zero-day WinSock driver hole under exploit, and a maximum severity SAP vulnerability

A currently exploited zero-day elevation of privilege vulnerability that needs to be patched in a Windows driver for WinSock is the highl…

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A currently exploited zero-day elevation of privilege vulnerability that needs to be patched in a Windows driver for WinSock is the highlight of the 398 fixes issued today in Microsoft’s August Patch Tuesday releases. The hole is in Windows’ Ancillary Function Driver for WinSock ( CVE-2026-68820 ), which, according to Todd Schell , principal product manager…

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