Summary
Impact: Elevation of Privilege. Microsoft rating: Important. Not known to be exploited — Exploitation More Likely. Customer action: Required.
Details
What actions should I take to be protected from this vulnerability?
Customers must perform the following to mitigate this vulnerability:
Update Azure Stack HCI resources to version 2411. Instructions on how to update can be found here.
Rotate the administrator and user account passwords for all Azure Arc VMs deployed prior to updating the Azure Stack HCI instance to version 2411. Instructions on how to update these passwords can be found here.
The CVSS score for this vulnerability rates Scope as Changed (S:C). What does this mean?
The vulnerability is found within a component of the Azure Stack HCI cluster, but exploitation impacts Azure Arc VMs.
The CVSS score for this vulnerability rates Attack Vector as Local (AV:L). What does this mean?
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability requires an authenticated attacker to access the target Azure Stack HCI cluster, which could be performed through a remote desktop session or SSH.
Security updates
10.0.25398.2411 — https://aka.ms/CVE-2024-49060
Vulnerabilities 1
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High 8.8
Azure Stack HCI Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Azure Stack HCI Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Revision history
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#2
Updated the build numbers. This is an informational update only.
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#1
Information published.
References
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CVE-2024-49060 Azure Stack HCI Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2024-49060
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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