Summary
Impact: Elevation of Privilege. Microsoft rating: Important. Not known to be exploited — Exploitation Less Likely. Customer action: Required.
Details
According to the CVSS metric, the attack complexity is high (AC:H). What does that mean for this vulnerability?
Exploiting this vulnerability would require an attacker to satisfy the prerequisite of internal network foothold and relaying the Management Point machine identity which is chain-dependent, is not produced by this bug itself and is not normally exposed directly to the Internet.
According to the CVSS metric, the attack vector is adjacent (AV:A). What does that mean for this vulnerability?
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability requires that an attacker will need to first gain access to the restricted network before running an attack.
What privileges could be gained by an attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability?
An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain administrator privileges.
How could an attacker exploit this vulnerability?
An attacker with access to the restricted network and the ability to authenticate as a Configuration Manager management point could submit specially crafted data to an affected system. Successful exploitation could allow the attacker to gain administrative control of the Configuration Manager environment. User interaction is not required.
Security updates
5.00.9135.1042 — https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/intune/configmgr/hotfix/2603/39398030
Vulnerabilities 1
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High 8.0
Microsoft Configuration Manager Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Improper neutralization of special elements used in an sql command ('sql injection') in Microsoft Configuration Manager allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges over an adjacent network.
Revision history
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#1
Information published.
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#2
Updated the vulnerability title and description to correctly identify Microsoft Configuration Manager as the affected product. Added an FAQ explaining the exploitation requirements. This is an informational change only; the affected products, security updates, severity, and CVSS scores are unchanged.
References
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CVE-2026-70049 Microsoft Configuration Manager Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2026-70049
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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