CVE-2021-38649 is an Elevation of Privilege vulnerability affecting Microsoft Azure Open Management Infrastructure (OMI) and related Azure services. With a CVSS score of 7.8 (HIGH), it allows a local, low-privileged attacker to gain full administrative control over affected systems. This vulnerability is actively exploited in the wild, as confirmed by its presence in the KEV catalog, and has garnered significant community attention and media coverage. Despite active exploitation, public exploit code is not widely available.
| 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:H/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.