Summary
Impact: Remote Code Execution. Microsoft rating: Important. Not known to be exploited — Exploitation Less Likely. Customer action: Required.
Details
According to the CVSS metrics, successful exploitation of this vulnerability could lead to major loss of confidentiality (C:H), integrity (I:H), and availability (A:H). What does that mean for this vulnerability?
An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain high privileges, which include read, write, and delete functionality.
According to the CVSS metric, the attack vector is network (AV:N), and privilege required is low (PR:L). What is the target used in the context of the remote code execution?
The attacker for this vulnerability could target the server accounts in an arbitrary or remote code execution. As an authenticated user, the attacker could attempt to trigger malicious code in the context of the server's account through a network call.
The privilege requirement is low because the attacker needs to be authenticated as a normal user.
How could an attacker exploit this vulnerability?
An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by passing a specially crafted OS-level command to a specific SDK property which is passed to the underlying CLI and results in remote code execution.
Which credential types provided by the Azure Identity client library are affected?
The vulnerability exists in the following credential types:
DefaultAzureCredential
AzureCliCredential
AzureDeveloperCliCredential
AzurePowerShellCredential
Security updates
1.10.2 — https://github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-net
Vulnerabilities 1
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High 8.8
Azure Identity SDK Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Azure Identity SDK Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Revision history
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#2
Added an FAQ. This is an information change only.
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#1
Information published.
References
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CVE-2023-36414 Azure Identity SDK Remote Code Execution Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2023-36414
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Microsoft Exploitability Index
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/msrc/exploitability-index?rtc=1
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Microsoft Support Lifecycle
https://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle
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Common Vulnerability Scoring System
https://www.first.org/cvss