August 2026 Patch Tuesday: One Exploited Zero-Day and 62 Critical Vulnerabilities Among 415 CVEs
2026-08-13T07:23:27Z•514635e0c66ebdcc1cc5d60225fe26bde858f9008ea839ab8fd48e40764d0103
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What happened
CrowdStrike’s August 2026 Patch Tuesday analysis reports 415 CVEs, including 62 critical vulnerabilities and one exploited zero-day. The feed also covers threat hunting for VMware ESX shell-command obfuscation, Astaroth malware activity, AI-agent security, and broader threat-hunting findings.
Why it matters
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- Source ID
- crowdstrike_blog
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- 514635e0c66ebdcc1cc5d60225fe26bde858f9008ea839ab8fd48e40764d0103
- Enrichment time
- 2026-08-13T07:23:27Z
- AI-assisted enrichment
- Yes
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