CVE-2024-38098 is an Elevation of Privilege vulnerability affecting the Microsoft Azure Connected Machine Agent. With a CVSS score of 7.8 (High), it allows a local, low-privileged attacker to achieve high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability without user interaction. While not currently listed in CISA's KEV catalog or having public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), it has garnered some community discussion and media coverage, including mention in Microsoft's August 2024 Patch Tuesday.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 1.44CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:azure_connected_machine_agent:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 1.0.0, < 1.44CPE match | cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:azure_connected_machine_agent:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
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.