By Dark Reading
Publication Date: 2026-03-11 01:08:00
Microsoft this week released patches for 83 CVEs across its product range, six of which it expects attackers are more like to exploit for a variety of reasons.
The patch drop is larger than last month’s relatively light 63-patch security update and contains the usual mix of privilege escalation vulnerabilities, remote code execution (RCE) flaws, denial of service issues, vulnerabilities that enable data theft and other bugs. However, there’s little in the set that merits an immediate all-hands on-deck kind of response that some Microsoft updates warrant, according to some security experts.
For the most part, Microsoft’s March patch release should pose relatively fewer challenges than usual, observed Tyler Reguly, associated director of security R&D at Fortra. “I don’t see a lot of reasons for people to stress,” Reguly said in statement to Dark Reading. The only vulnerability to which Microsoft assigned a near maximum severity score has already been fixed and requires no user…
