Azure Active Directory Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Summary

Vulnerabilities 1

• Critical 9.9
  CVE-2026-50481

  Azure Active Directory Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

  Modification of assumed-immutable data (maid) in Azure Active Directory allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges over a network.

  Microsoft Azure Active Directory
  Aug 6, 2026

Revision history

1. 2026-08-06 #1

   Information published.

References

• CVE-2026-50481 Azure Active Directory Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability - HTML
  https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2026-50481
• 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