Azure Monitor Agent Elevation of Privilege 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
- Metrics
- CVSS:3.1 7.1 / 6.2Base score metrics: 7.1 / Temporal score metrics: 6.2
Attack Vector
Local
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
Low
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Exploit Code Maturity
Unproven
Remediation Level
Official Fix
Report Confidence
Confirmed
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
Security Updates
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- 1.30.0
Disclaimer
Revisions
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