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July 2026 Security Updates

This release consists of 663 Microsoft CVEs:

Product Family Updates per Product/Version Vulnerabilities Addressed Distinct Updates Type of Update
Azure 1 19 13 Individual
Defender 1 5 2 Cumulative
Developer Tools 1 24 36 Cumulative
Exchange Server 1 5 4 Cumulative
Microsoft Edge 1 67 1 Cumulative
Office 1 90 11 Cumulative (except 2016)
Office 2016 1 90 18 Individual
Other 1 6 4 Individual
SharePoint Server 1 18 3 Cumulative
SQL Server 1 8 8 Cumulative
Windows 1 421 35 Cumulative

Notable CVEs

CVE ID Title Notable Item
CVE-2026-50661 Windows BitLocker Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability Publicly Known
CVE-2026-56155 Active Directory Federation Services Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability Exploitation Detected
CVE-2026-56164 Microsoft SharePoint Server Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability Exploitation Detected
CVE-2026-58644 Microsoft SharePoint Remote Code Execution Vulnerability Exploitation Detected

We are republishing 867 non-Microsoft Chromium CVEs

Security Update Guide Blog Posts

Date Blog Post
October 31, 2025 You asked, we delivered: Introducing new features for an improved security experience
October 28, 2025 Understanding CVE-2025-55315: What CISOs, security engineers, and sysadmins should know
October 22, 2025 Toward greater transparency: Introducing machine-readable Vulnerability Exploitability Xchange (VEX) for Azure Linux and beyond
November 12, 2024 Toward greater transparency: Publishing machine-readable CSAF files
June 27, 2024 Toward greater transparency: Unveiling Cloud Service CVEs
April 9, 2024 Toward greater transparency: Security Update Guide now shares CWEs for CVEs
January 6, 2023 Publishing CBL-Mariner CVEs on the Security Update Guide CVRF API
January 11, 2022 Coming Soon: New Security Update Guide Notification System
February 9, 2021 Continuing to Listen: Good News about the Security Update Guide API
January 13, 2021 Security Update Guide Supports CVEs Assigned by Industry Partners
December 8, 2020 Security Update Guide: Let’s keep the conversation going
November 9, 2020 Vulnerability Descriptions in the New Version of the Security Update Guide

Relevant Resources

  • The new Hotpatching feature is now generally available. Please see Hotpatching feature for Windows Server Azure Edition virtual machines (VMs) for more information.
  • Windows 10 and Windows 11 updates are cumulative. The monthly security release includes all security fixes for vulnerabilities that affect Windows 10 and Windows 11, in addition to non-security updates. The updates are available via the Microsoft Update Catalog. For information on lifecycle and support dates for Windows 10 and Windows 11 operating systems, please see Windows Lifecycle Facts Sheet.
  • Microsoft is improving Windows Release Notes. For more information, please see What's next for Windows release notes.
  • A list of the latest servicing stack updates for each operating system can be found in ADV990001. This list will be updated whenever a new servicing stack update is released. It is important to install the latest servicing stack update.
  • In addition to security changes for the vulnerabilities, updates include defense-in-depth updates to help improve security-related features.
  • Customers running Windows Server 2008 R2, or Windows Server 2008 need to purchase the Extended Security Update to continue receiving security updates. See 4522133 for more information.

Known Issues

You can see these in more detail from the Deployments tab by selecting Known Issues column in the Edit Columns panel.

For more information about Windows Known Issues, please see Windows message center (links to currently-supported versions of Windows are in the left pane).

KB Article Applies To
5002882 SharePoint Server Subscription Edition
5099444 Windows Server 2012 R2
5099445 Windows Server 2012
5099536 Windows Server 2025
5099540 Windows Server 2022
5101346 SQL Server 2025 CU6
5101347 SQL Server 2022 CU25
5102333 SQL Server 2025 GDR
5102334 SQL Server 2022 GDR
5102336 SQL Server 2019 GDR
5102337 SQL Server 2017 CU31
5102338 SQL Server 2017 GDR
5102339 SQL Server 2017 GDR
5102340 SQL Server 2016 SP3 GDR