CVE-2023-36737

FAUCET Score

CVE-2023-36737 is an Elevation of Privilege vulnerability affecting the Azure Network Watcher VM Agent. This high-severity flaw, with a CVSS score of 7.8, allows a local attacker to gain elevated privileges on an affected system with low attack complexity and no user interaction. While there is no known active exploitation or public exploit code, the vulnerability has garnered some community discussion and media coverage, indicating its potential impact.

Impacted Technologies

Vendor	Product	Version(s)	CPE
		< 1.4.2798.3CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:azure_network_watcher::::::::

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.8HIGH

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

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

Exploitability Score

1.8

Impact Score

5.9

CvssVersion

3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score

0.56%

Probability of exploitation in next 30 days

EPSS Percentile

43.4%

Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group

As of 2026-07-25

Model: v2026.06.15

This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0056 is in the 82nd percentile among its peer group of 16,994 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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.

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 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 Network Watcher VM ExtensionFixed in: 1.4.2798.3

View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

microsoft2023-Oct/CVE-2023-36737Important

Azure Network Watcher VM Agent Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Oct 10, 2023

References

msrc.microsoft.com / update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2023-36737

PatchVendor Advisory