Microsoft Patches 86 Vulnerabilities

Microsoft has released patches for dozens of flaws in Windows and other products, including ones with ‘exploitation more likely’ rating.

Microsoft’s September 2025 Patch Tuesday updates resolve a total of 86 vulnerabilities across Windows and other products.

The tech giant’s release notes indicate that none of the security holes patched this month have been exploited in the wild.

However, eight of them have an ‘exploitation more likely’ rating, including information disclosure and privilege escalation issues in the Windows kernel, a remote code execution vulnerability in Windows NTFS, and privilege escalation bugs in the Windows TCP/IP driver, Windows Hyper-V, Windows NTLM, and Windows SMB.

A majority of these vulnerabilities have a ‘high severity’ rating, and the NTLM and SMB issues have the highest CVSS score, 8.8/10.

Based on CVSS score, the most important security hole patched by Microsoft this month is CVE-2025-55232, described as a remote ...