August 2026 Patch Tuesday forecast: How do we deal with the patch apocalypse? July 2026 Patch Tuesday was record-setting in so many ways. The sheer volume of security patches for almost every product in the Microsoft portfolio was the highest ever and, of course, well over 600 CVEs were identified in the Security Updates Guide. Interestingly, only two CVEs were reported as exploited zero-days and only one as publicly disclosed, but we’ll get back to that later in this article. There were 405 CVEs reported against Windows 11 and Server 2025, and 337 logged for Windows 10 and its associated server versions. There were record numbers of CVEs for Microsoft SharePoint and Office, and also updates for SQL Server, Exchange Server, and .NET framework as well. Did you catch the CVEs reported for…