{"id":222285,"date":"2026-03-10T15:39:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T19:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/10\/microsofts-monthly-patch-tuesday-is-first-in-6-months-with-no-actively-exploited-zero-days\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T06:40:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T10:40:13","slug":"microsofts-monthly-patch-tuesday-is-first-in-6-months-with-no-actively-exploited-zero-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/10\/microsofts-monthly-patch-tuesday-is-first-in-6-months-with-no-actively-exploited-zero-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft\u2019s monthly Patch Tuesday is first in 6 months with no actively exploited zero-days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/microsoft-patch-tuesday-march-2026\/\">Microsoft\u2019s monthly Patch Tuesday is first in 6 months with no actively exploited zero-days<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/microsoft-patch-tuesday-march-2026\/\">https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/microsoft-patch-tuesday-march-2026\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-10 15:39:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"cyberscoop.com\">cyberscoop.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Microsoft addressed 83 vulnerabilities that cut across its broad portfolio of enterprise software and underlying services in its latest security update. The company\u2019s Patch Tuesday release contained no actively exploited zero-day vulnerabilities and six defects it described as more likely to be exploited.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The vendor\u2019s batch of patches marks the first monthly update without an actively exploited zero-day in six months.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201clack of bugs under active attack is a nice change from last month,\u201d when Microsoft reported six actively exploited vulnerabilities, Dustin Childs, head of threat awareness at Trend Micro\u2019s Zero Day Initiative, said in a blog post Tuesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Two vulnerabilities addressed this month \u2014 CVE-2026-21262 and CVE-2026-26127 \u2014 were listed as publicly known at the time of release. \u201cThese bugs are more bark than bite,\u201d said Satnam Narang, senior staff research engineer at Tenable.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>More than half of the defects in this month\u2019s update can trigger escalated privileges, and six of those vulnerabilities \u2014 CVE-2026-23668, CVE-2026-24289, CVE-2026-24291, CVE-2026-24294, CVE-2026-25187 and CVE-2026-26132 \u2014 were rated as more likely to be exploited, Narang added.<\/p>\n<p>An information-disclosure defect in Microsoft Excel \u2014 CVE-2026-26144 \u2014 showcases an attack scenario that\u2019s likely to occur more often, according to Childs. \u201cAn attacker could use it to cause the Copilot Agent to exfiltrate data off the target,\u201d essentially making it a zero-click operation, he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers also focused on a pair of defects in Microsoft Office with CVSS ratings of 8.4 \u2014 CVE-2026-26110 and CVE-2026-26113 \u2014 that attackers can trigger to execute arbitrary code. The preview plane in Microsoft Office can serve as the attack vector for both vulnerabilities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRemote-code execution vulnerabilities in Office applications pose significant risks for organizations, as documents are widely shared via email, file shares,&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/microsoft-patch-tuesday-march-2026\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft\u2019s monthly Patch Tuesday is first in 6 months with no actively exploited zero-days https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/microsoft-patch-tuesday-march-2026\/&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":222286,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2222180224.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222285"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222285"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":222287,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222285\/revisions\/222287"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}