Summary
Impact: Elevation of Privilege. Microsoft rating: Important. Not known to be exploited — Exploitation Unlikely. Customer action: Required.
Details
What privileges could be gained by an attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability?
With this vulnerability a finder with a low-privilege connectivity role could reach the Arc host's managed-identity credential.
According to the CVSS metrics, successful exploitation of this vulnerability could lead to major loss of confidentiality (C:H), but lead to no loss of integrity (I:N) or availability (A:N). What does that mean for this vulnerability?
This vulnerability could allow an attacker to disclose confidential information such as encrypted credentials but does not allow the attacker to modify any data or make the service unavailable.
Security updates
1.68 — https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-arc/servers/agent-release-notes
Vulnerabilities 1
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Medium 6.5
Azure Arc Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Server-side request forgery (ssrf) in Azure Arc allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges over a network.
Revision history
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References
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CVE-2026-96204 Azure Arc Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2026-96204
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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