Summary
Impact: Elevation of Privilege. Microsoft rating: Important. Not known to be exploited — Exploitation Less Likely. Customer action: Required.
Details
What privileges could be gained by an attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability?
An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain administrator privileges.
Is there any action I need to take to be protected from this vulnerability?
If you have enabled automatic updates, you will automatically receive the update as soon as it is available. If you have not enabled automatic updates, you will need to update the product manually.
Please see Update Network Watcher extension to the latest version - Azure Virtual Machines | Microsoft Learn for more information.
Security updates
1.4.3320.1 — https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/extensions/network-watcher-update?tabs=windows
Vulnerabilities 1
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High 7.8
Azure Network Watcher VM Extension Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Azure Network Watcher VM Extension Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Revision history
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References
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CVE-2024-35261 Azure Network Watcher VM Extension Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2024-35261
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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