Microsoft Product Vulnerabilities

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Microsoft products, the most severe of which could allow for remote code execution. Successful exploitation of the most severe of these vulnerabilities could result in an attacker gaining the same privileges as the logged-on user. Depending on the privileges associated with the user, an attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights. Users whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less impacted than those who operate with administrative user rights.

Threat Intelligence

Microsoft reports that CVE-2026-68820 has been exploited in the wild.

Systems Affected

Azure
Defender
Developer Tools
Exchange Server
Office
Office 2016
Other
SharePoint Server
Windows

Risk

Government:
– Large and medium government entities: High
– Small government entities: Medium

Businesses:
– Large and medium business entities: High
– Small business entities: Medium

Home Users: Low

Recommendations

Apply appropriate updates provided by Microsoft to vulnerable systems immediately after appropriate testing.
Apply the Principle of Least Privilege to all systems and services. Run all software as a non-privileged user (one without administrative privileges) to diminish the effects of a successful attack.
Use vulnerability scanning to find potentially exploitable software vulnerabilities to remediate them.
Architect sections of the network to isolate critical systems, functions, or resources. Use physical and logical segmentation to prevent access to potentially sensitive systems and information. Use a DMZ to contain any internet-facing services that should not be exposed from the internal network. Configure separate virtual private cloud (VPC) instances to isolate critical cloud systems.
Use capabilities to detect and block conditions that may lead to or be indicative of a software exploit occurring.

References

Microsoft:
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/en-us
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/releaseNote/2026-Aug

Reporting
The NJCCIC encourages recipients who discover signs of malicious cyber activity to contact the NJCCIC via the cyber incident report form at www.cyber.nj.gov/report.