CVE-2021-28458 is an Elevation of Privilege vulnerability affecting the Microsoft ms-rest-nodeauth library used in Azure. With a CVSS score of 7.8 (HIGH), it allows a local attacker to achieve high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability with low attack complexity. While there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or KEV listing, the vulnerability has garnered some community discussion and media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 3.0.8CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:ms-rest-nodeauth:*:*:*:*:*:node.js:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.