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CVE-2024-35261

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2024-35261 is an Elevation of Privilege vulnerability affecting the Microsoft Azure Network Watcher VM Extension. With a CVSS score of 7.8 (HIGH), this vulnerability allows a local attacker to achieve high confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts with low attack complexity. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, no public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), and minimal community discussion or media coverage beyond its inclusion in the Microsoft July 2024 Patch Tuesday.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 1.4.3320.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:azure_network_watcher_agent:*:*:*:*:*:windows:*:*

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
0.71%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
49.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0071 is in the 86th 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 Extension for WindowsFixed in: 1.4.3320.1
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

microsoft2024-Jul/CVE-2024-35261Important

Azure Network Watcher VM Extension Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Jul 9, 2024

References

msrc.microsoft.com / update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2024-35261
PatchVendor Advisory