Summary
Impact: Elevation of Privilege. Microsoft rating: Critical. Not known to be exploited. Customer action: Not required.
Details
What privileges could be gained by an attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability?
An attacker who successfully exploits this vulnerability could disable Verifiable IDs on another tenant.
Why are there no links to an update or instructions with steps that must be taken to protect from this vulnerability?
This vulnerability has already been fully mitigated by Microsoft. There is no action for users of this service to take. The purpose of this CVE is to provide further transparency.
Please see Toward greater transparency: Unveiling Cloud Service CVEs for more information.
According to the CVSS metrics, successful exploitation of this vulnerability does not impact confidentiality (C:N), or integrity (I:N), but has a high impact on availability (A:H). What does that mean for this vulnerability?
An attacker who successfully exploits this vulnerability cannot access or modify any sensitive user data but can cause user data to become unavailable.
Vulnerabilities 1
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High 7.5
Microsoft Entra ID Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Improper access control in Decentralized Identity Services resulted in a vulnerability that allows an unauthenticated attacker to disable Verifiable ID's on another tenant.
Revision history
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References
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CVE-2024-43477 Microsoft Entra ID Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2024-43477
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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