Azure Stack Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Security Vulnerability

Released: Oct 8, 2024

Assigning CNA
Microsoft
CVE.org link
CVE-2024-38179
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:C/C:H/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 Less Likely

FAQ

According to the CVSS metric, successful exploitation could lead to a scope change (S:C). What does this mean for this vulnerability?

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to perform operations in the victim's hybrid cloud environment with the same privileges as the compromised managed identity.

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

An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain the privileges of the compromised managed identity.

How could an attacker exploit this vulnerability?

An attacker with basic user privileges could compromise an unencrypted service principal for a managed identity and perform service management operations on other resources in the hybrid environment the managed identity is permitted to manage.

Acknowledgements

  • Barry Markey with Microsoft
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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