Azure Monitor Agent Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Security Vulnerability

Released: Oct 8, 2024

Assigning CNA
Microsoft
CVE.org link
CVE-2024-38097
Impact
Elevation of Privilege
Max Severity
Important
Weakness
CVSS Source
Microsoft
Vector String
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Please see Common Vulnerability Scoring System for more information on the definition of these metrics.

Exploitability

The following table provides an exploitability assessment for this vulnerability at the time of original publication.

Publicly disclosed
No
Exploited
No
Exploitability assessment
Exploitation Unlikely

FAQ

According to the CVSS metrics, successful exploitation of this vulnerability does not impact confidentiality (C:N), but has major impact on integrity (I:H) and availability (A:H). What does that mean for this vulnerability?

Exploitation of this vulnerability does not disclose any confidential information but allows an attacker to modify or delete files containing data which could cause the service to become unavailable.

What privileges could be gained by an attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability?

An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could create, modify, or delete files in the security context of the NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM account.

What actions do customers need to take to protect themselves from this vulnerability?

Customers who have disabled Automatic Extension Upgrades or would like to upgrade an extension immediately must manually update their Azure Monitor Agent to the latest version. For more information on how to perform a manual update, see Manage Azure Monitor Agent.

Acknowledgements

  • R4nger & Zhiniang Peng
  • BochengXiang(@Crispr) with FDU
  • Filip Dragović
  • @sim0nsecurity
Microsoft recognizes the efforts of those in the security community who help us protect customers through coordinated vulnerability disclosure. See Acknowledgements for more information.

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