Summary
Impact: Security Feature Bypass. Microsoft rating: Important. Not known to be exploited — Exploitation Unlikely. Customer action: Required.
Details
What kind of security feature could be bypassed by successfully exploiting this vulnerability?
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to bypass the integrity protection provided by the authentication tag that is designed to detect tampering with encrypted data. This may prevent the system from identifying whether encrypted content has been modified before it is decrypted.
How could an attacker exploit this vulnerability?
An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending specially crafted encrypted data to an affected application that uses the vulnerable decryption implementation and observing how the application responds. If the application is reachable over a network, this could allow the attacker to manipulate encrypted input in a way that bypasses integrity checks during decryption.
Security updates
4.10.6 — https://github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-java/pull/48476
Vulnerabilities 1
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Critical 9.1
Azure SDK for Java Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability
The Java Key Vault Keys library in the Azure SDK for Java contains an issue in the local cryptographic verification path where authentication tag comparison was implemented incorrectly. In affected applications that use the vulnerable local cryptography path,…
Revision history
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#2
The executive summary has been updated to include additional details about this vulnerability. This change does not affect the available security updates. Customers should install the recommended updates to remain protected from this vulnerability.
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#1
Information published.
References
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CVE-2026-33117 Azure SDK for Java Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2026-33117
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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