Microsoft Patches 83 Vulnerabilities

Microsoft on Tuesday announced patches for 83 vulnerabilities affecting its products.

While none of the bugs have been flagged as exploited, two of them have been publicly disclosed, Microsoft’s advisories reveal.

These include CVE-2026-26127, a denial-of-service (DoS) issue in .NET, and CVE-2026-21262, an elevation of privilege defect in SQL Server.

“These bugs are more bark than bite. The DoS vulnerability is assessed as unlikely to be exploited and requires an attacker to be authorized beforehand, while the privilege escalation bug was deemed less likely to be exploited,” Tenable researcher Satnam Narang points out.

Microsoft’s March 2026 Patch Tuesday updates resolve a single critical-severity flaw, namely CVE-2026-21536 (CVSS score of 9.8), a remote code execution weakness in Devices Pricing Program that has already been fully mitigated by the tech giant.

“There is no action for users of this service to take. The purpose of this CVE is to provide…