Azure Stack Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) Elevation of Privilege 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
- Metrics
- CVSS:3.1 8.8 / 7.7Base score metrics: 8.8 / Temporal score metrics: 7.7
Attack Vector
Local
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
Low
User Interaction
None
Scope
Changed
Confidentiality
High
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 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
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