Summary
Impact: Elevation of Privilege. Microsoft rating: Important. Not known to be exploited — Exploitation Less Likely. Customer action: Required.
Details
What privileges could an attacker gain by exploiting this vulnerability?
An attacker with a local account on the affected server could perform administrative operations in Azure CycleCloud and run code with the privileges of its service account.
Security updates
8.10.1 — https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cyclecloud/release-notes/8-10-1?view=cyclecloud-8
Vulnerabilities 1
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High 7.8
Azure CycleCloud Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Improper limitation of a pathname to a restricted directory ('path traversal') in Azure CycleCloud allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.
Revision history
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References
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CVE-2026-114161 Azure CycleCloud Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2026-114161
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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