Summary
Impact: Remote Code Execution. Microsoft rating: Important. Not known to be exploited — Exploitation Less Likely. Customer action: Required.
Details
According to the CVSS metric, privileges required is low (PR:L). What does that mean for this vulnerability?
Any authenticated attacker could trigger this vulnerability. It does not require admin or other elevated privileges.
How could an attacker exploit this vulnerability?
An attacker with local network access to an Azure Linux Virtual Machine running Azure Monitor could exploit a heap overflow to escalate privileges to the syslog user, enabling execution of arbitrary commands.
Security updates
1.35.9 — https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-monitor/agents/azure-monitor-agent-extension-versions
Vulnerabilities 1
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High 8.8
Azure Monitor Agent Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Out-of-bounds write in Azure Monitor Agent allows an authorized attacker to execute code over a network.
Revision history
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References
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CVE-2025-62550 Azure Monitor Agent Remote Code Execution Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2025-62550
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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