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?
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability requires an attacker to prepare the target environment to improve exploit reliability.
According to the CVSS metric, a successful exploitation could lead to a scope change (S:C). What does this mean for this vulnerability?
An exploited vulnerability can affect resources beyond the security scope managed by the security authority of the vulnerable component. In this case, the vulnerable component and the impacted component are different and managed by different security authorities.
According to the CVSS metric, the attack complexity is high (AC:H). What does this mean for this vulnerability?
An attacker would need specific conditions to be in place (i.e. particular protocol settings, or configurations, etc.) before an attack could succeed, which reduces the likelihood of widespread or opportunistic exploitation.
What privileges could be gained by an attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability?
An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could obtain and reuse another user's Azure Key Vault access token, allowing unauthorized access to read, modify, or delete secrets and perform cryptographic operations in that user's Key Vault. No user interaction is required.
Security updates
4.10.1 — https://github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-net/blob/Azure.Security.KeyVault.Keys_4.10.1/sdk/keyvault/Azure.Security.KeyVault.Keys/CHANGELOG.md
4.9.1 — https://github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-net/blob/Azure.Security.KeyVault.Certificates_4.9.1/sdk/keyvault/Azure.Security.KeyVault.Certificates/CHANGELOG.md
4.11.1 — https://github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-net/blob/Azure.Security.KeyVault.Secrets_4.11.1/sdk/keyvault/Azure.Security.KeyVault.Secrets/CHANGELOG.md
4.8.1 — https://github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-net/blob/Azure.Security.KeyVault.Administration_4.8.1/sdk/keyvault/Azure.Security.KeyVault.Administration/CHANGELOG.md
Vulnerabilities 1
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High 8.2
Azure Key Vault Client SDK Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Improper restriction of communication channel to intended endpoints in Azure Key Vault allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges over a network.
Revision history
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Information published.
References
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CVE-2026-85925 Azure Key Vault Client SDK Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2026-85925
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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