August 2025 Patch Tuesday forecast: Try, try again July turned into a surprisingly busy month. It started slowly with a fairly ‘calm’ Patch Tuesday as I forecasted in my last blog. Although there were 130 new CVEs addressed across all the Microsoft releases, there was only one publicly disclosed CVE, so the risk was low. But a short time later, two CVEs in SharePoint were reported exploited, and the month started to heat up with hotfixes near the end of the month. Mix in some security configuration issues with Microsoft Exchange Server and some major updates from Google and Apple, and the month ended with lots of activity. CISA flags SharePoint flaws as Microsoft issues new fixes It can take a few iterations to completely fix a vulnerability. Microsoft found this out with a recent round…