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CVE-2021-42306

29
FAUCET Score

CVE-2021-42306 is an information disclosure vulnerability in Microsoft Azure Active Directory, Azure Site Recovery, Azure Automation, and Azure Migrate. It allows users or services with application read access to retrieve private key data if it was improperly uploaded as part of an authentication certificate keyCredential. Rated 8.1 HIGH (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable with low complexity, requiring only low privileges to achieve high confidentiality and integrity impact. While Microsoft has addressed the flaw and provided customer guidance, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion beyond initial media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 2021-10-30CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:azure_active_directory:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< 2021-11-01CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:azure_active_site_recovery:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< 2021-10-15CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:azure_automation:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< 2021-11-02CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:azure_migrate:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

8.1HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
5.2
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
3.08%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
86.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0308 is in the 85th percentile among its peer group of 17,823 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

microsoftpatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Azure Automation

Vendor Advisories (1)

microsoft2021-Nov/CVE-2021-42306Important

Azure Active Directory Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Nov 9, 2021

References

portal.msrc.microsoft.com / en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2021-42306
PatchVendor Advisory