Microsoft Patch Tuesday for October 2026 — Snort rules and prominent vulnerabilities

Reported by Cisco Talos (Nick Biasini)

Summary by Cyber Security News13 Oct 2026, 22:37 CEST

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Microsoft has released its monthly security update for October 2026, which includes 1415 vulnerabilities affecting a range of products, including 85 that Microsoft marked as "critical." Microsoft notes that 1 of the vulnerabilities disclosed this month have been exploited in the wild CVE-2026-96951 is a security feature bypass vulnerability that affects Windows Shell. The shared weakness is Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in a Command ('Command Injection').

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