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Why this month's Microsoft patch release is a doozy

Ars Technica · Technology · 2026-09-08

Why this month's Microsoft patch release is a doozy

Microsoft’s patch for September is a doozy, with a record number of roughly 972 vulnerabilities fixed and 112 of them meeting the high critical-severity threshold. It was only two months ago that Microsoft patched a then-record 570 vulnerabilities. Then, last month, Microsoft patched some 620 of them. Google and other companies have also published record numbers of vulnerabilities in recent months.

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