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CVE-2025-21416

25
FAUCET Score

CVE-2025-21416 is a high-severity missing authorization vulnerability affecting Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop. An authorized attacker can exploit this flaw over a network to achieve privilege escalation, potentially gaining full control over the affected system. With a CVSS score of 8.8, the vulnerability has a low attack complexity and can lead to high impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While no public exploit code or active exploitation has been observed, and community discussion is minimal, its high FAUCET Risk Score indicates a significant potential threat.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:azure_virtual_desktop:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

8.5HIGH

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
6.0
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.69%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
49.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0069 is in the 41st percentile among its peer group of 17,844 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Patches (1)

microsoftvendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

microsoft2025-Apr/CVE-2025-21416Critical

Azure Virtual Desktop Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Apr 8, 2025

References

msrc.microsoft.com / update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2025-21416
Vendor Advisory