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Critical MSRC-CVE-2022-33646 1 CVE

Azure Batch Node Agent Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Published Aug 9, 2022 · Updated Mar 29, 2023 · Revision 2

Summary

Impact: Elevation of Privilege. Microsoft rating: Critical. Not known to be exploited — Exploitation More Likely. Customer action: Required.

Details

How do I determine what version of Azure Batch is running?
Using a client targeting REST API version 2018-08-01.7.0 or newer call the get compute node or list compute nodes APIs and examine the version property of nodeAgentInfo. Your system should be running Batch Agent version 1.9.27 or later.

How do I update my Batch Agent?
If you are not running Batch Agent version 1.9.27 or later, you need to resize your pools to zero or recreate your pool. This will update the Batch Agent to the latest version. Your pool won't receive node agent updates unless it's recreated (or if it's resized to 0 compute nodes). See Azure Batch best practices - Pool lifetime and billing for more information.

According to the CVSS metric, the attack complexity is high (AC:H). What does that mean for this vulnerability?
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability requires an attacker to prepare the target environment to improve exploit reliability.

Security updates
1.9.27 — https://github.com/Azure/Batch/blob/master/changelogs/nodeagent/CHANGELOG.md#1927

Vulnerabilities 1

  • High 7.0

    Azure Batch Node Agent Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

    Azure Batch Node Agent Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Revision history

  1. #2

    Added acknowledgements. This is an informational change only.

  2. #1

    Information published.

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