CVE-2024-38162 is an Elevation of Privilege vulnerability affecting the Microsoft Azure Connected Machine Agent. With a CVSS score of 7.8 (HIGH), a local attacker could achieve high impact to confidentiality, integrity, and availability with low attack complexity and no user interaction required. While there is no known active exploitation, public exploit code, or KEV listing, the vulnerability has garnered some community discussion and media coverage, including its 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.