Patch Tuesday - October 2026

Reported by Rapid7 (Adam Barnett)

Summary by Cyber Security News13 Oct 2026, 23:40 CEST

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Microsoft is publishing 1,413 own-product vulnerabilities on October 2026 Patch Tuesday, including 1,102 vulnerabilities in Windows. Anyone who enjoyed last month’s record-setting Patch Tuesday will love the October 2026 edition, because it’s much bigger still. As Rapid7 has noted over the course of 2026, there is every reason to suppose that vulnerability volumes will continue to rise.

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