MSRC-CVE-2025-24049 — Azure Command Line Integration (CLI) Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

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?
The attacker would gain the rights of the user that is running the affected application.

How could an attacker exploit this vulnerability?
An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by passing a specially crafted key-value argument to Azure CLI, injecting arbitrary Python code that modifies runtime behavior.

Security updates
2.69.0 — https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cli/azure/release-notes-azure-cli

Vulnerabilities 1

High 8.4

CVE-2025-24049

Azure Command Line Integration (CLI) Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Improper neutralization of special elements used in a command ('command injection') in Azure Command Line Integration (CLI) allows an unauthorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.

Microsoft Azure CLI

Mar 11, 2025

Revision history

2025-03-11 #1
Information published.

References

CVE-2025-24049 Azure Command Line Integration (CLI) Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2025-24049
Microsoft Exploitability Index
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/msrc/exploitability-index?rtc=1
Microsoft Support Lifecycle
https://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle
Common Vulnerability Scoring System
https://www.first.org/cvss