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CVE-2025-21199

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2025-21199 describes an improper privilege management vulnerability in the Microsoft Azure Agent Installer, allowing an authorized attacker to achieve local privilege escalation. With a CVSS score of 6.7 (Medium), exploitation requires low privileges and user interaction, but high attack complexity, potentially leading to high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While there is no known active exploitation, exploit code, or KEV listing, the vulnerability has garnered minimal community discussion and media coverage, with one article mentioning it in the context of Microsoft's March 2025 Patch Tuesday.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 2.0.9940.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:azure_agent:*:*:*:*:*:backup:*:*
< 9.30CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:azure_agent:*:*:*:*:*:site_recovery:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

6.7MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
0.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.42%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
34.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0042 is in the 90th percentile among its peer group of 296 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.0 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 (3)

microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Azure Agent for Site RecoveryFixed in: 9.30
View patch
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Azure Agent for BackupFixed in: 2.0.9940.0
View patch
microsoftvendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

microsoft2025-Mar/CVE-2025-21199Important

Azure Agent Installer for Backup and Site Recovery Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Mar 11, 2025

References

msrc.microsoft.com / update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2025-21199
Vendor Advisory