Updates for SharePoint 2013 (August 2018 CU)

A new cumulative update has been released for SharePoint 2013 (August 2018 CU)
This CU fixes all SharePoint 2013 products.

SP Build: 15.0.5059.1000

This CU is a full update (Uber package), requiring no earlier updates apart from SP1.

The CU includes all SharePoint 2013 security fixes released since SP1. It does not include SP1, which is required to install this CU.

Because of its size, the CU is split into separate CAB files and one executable. Download all these files into the same installation folder before starting the update.

SharePoint 2013 CU – KB articles describing the CU:

KB 4032244 – SharePoint Foundation 2013 August 2018 CU
KB 4032247 – SharePoint Server 2013 August 2018 CU
KB 4032245 – Project Server 2013 August 2018 CU
KB 4022238 – Office Web Apps Server 2013 August 2018 CU

SharePoint 2013 CU – CU download link:

After installation, remember to run the SharePoint 2013 Products Configuration Wizard, or:
PSConfig.exe -cmd upgrade -inplace b2b -wait -cmd applicationcontent -install -cmd installfeatures -cmd secureresources -cmd services -install

Important

Before installing the CU, ensure SP1 is already installed.

Installation may take up to five hours, so I recommend reading: Speeding up CU and SP installation on SharePoint 2013.

If your farm's patch level is earlier than July 2015 CU, run PSCONFIG immediately after installing the CU to update the schema of certain search databases. More at:
https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/stefan_gossner/2015/07/15/important-psconfig-is-mandatory-for-july-2015-cu-for-sharepoint-2013

Always install only the CU matching your product version on a SharePoint 2013 farm.

The Project Server 2013 CU already includes:

CU SharePoint Server 2013
CU SharePoint Foundation 2013.

The SharePoint Server 2013 CU already includes:

CU SharePoint Foundation 2013

Remember to update Distributed Cache as well as SharePoint; see How to update Distributed Cache correctly.

Included fixes and improvements

This CU's fixes and improvements are excerpts from official Microsoft KB articles in their original language (EN).

SharePoint Foundation 2013

This update fixes the following issues:

Assume that you open a Project Server 2013 Project Web App site through Chrome and the name of a project on the site contains spaces. If you use Project 2013 to open the project from the site, you experience an error. After you install this update, you can open the project successfully.Note To fix this issue, you also need to install August 14, 2018, update for Project Server 2013 (KB4032253).
Assume that you work on sites in multiple web applications that enable Windows Authentication and Anonymous Access. If the TCP session in the browser is changed or closed when you are editing data on a site, you can’t continue to edit data on the site.

This update also contains the following improvement:

This update adds better support for the keyboard accessibility when you use the Item or Entity Picker dialog box of Business Connectivity Services by restoring the focus to the Browse button whenever the dialog box is closed.

SharePoint Server 2013

This security update resolves vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office that could allow information disclosure if a user opens a specially crafted Office file. To learn more about these vulnerabilities, see Microsoft Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures CVE-2018-8378.

This update fixes the following issue:

SharePoint Server 2013 is unable to crawl external sites that block HTTP 1.0 request. In this case, SharePoint Server 2013 would receive 403 HTTP response code from external sites. This update will enable SharePoint Server 2013 to crawl such external sites by sending HTTP 1.1 request instead of HTTP 1.0 request.

Project Server 2013

This update fixes the following issue:

Assume that you open a Project Server 2013 Project Web App site through Chrome and the name of a project on the site contains spaces. If you use Project 2013 to open the project from the site, you experience an error. After you install this update, you can open the project successfully.

Note To fix this issue, you also need to install August 14, 2018, update for SharePoint Foundation 2013 (KB4032251).