Azure Monitor Agent Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

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.

How could an attacker exploit this vulnerability and what privileges could an attacker gain?
An authenticated attacker with read access permissions can exploit this vulnerability to perform arbitrary file and folder deletion on the host where the Azure Monitor Agent is installed.

According to the CVSS metrics, successful exploitation of this vulnerability could lead to no loss of confidentiality (C:N), but could lead to major loss on integrity (I:H) and availability (A:H). What does that mean for this vulnerability?
This vulnerability does not allow disclosure of any confidential information, but could allow an attacker to delete data that could include data that results in the service being unavailable.

Security updates
1.26.0 — https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-monitor/agents/azure-monitor-agent-extension-versions