CVE-2021-38645 is an Elevation of Privilege vulnerability in Microsoft's Open Management Infrastructure (OMI), affecting various Azure services including Automation, Diagnostics, and Security Center. With a CVSS score of 7.8 (HIGH), this vulnerability allows a local, low-privileged attacker to gain full administrative privileges on affected systems without user interaction, leading to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. This flaw is actively exploited in the wild, as confirmed by its presence in the KEV catalog, and has garnered significant community attention with numerous media articles and discussions, despite a lack of public exploit code on platforms like Metasploit or ExploitDB.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:azure_automation_state_configuration:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:azure_automation_update_management:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:azure_diagnostics_\(lad\):-:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:azure_open_management_infrastructure:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:azure_security_center:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
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.