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CVE-2025-27489

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2025-27489 is an improper input validation vulnerability in Microsoft Azure Local, affecting Azure Stack HCI 22H2 and 23H2. This flaw allows an authenticated local attacker to achieve privilege escalation with a high CVSS score of 7.8, indicating significant potential for confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts. While there is no public exploit code available (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), and it is not currently listed on the KEV catalog, community discussion and media coverage suggest some awareness, with one article mentioning its fix in a recent Patch Tuesday.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 10.0.20348.3328CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:azure_stack_hci_22h2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< 10.0.25398.1486CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:azure_stack_hci_23h2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
0.57%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
43.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0057 is in the 83rd percentile among its peer group of 17,061 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 (3)

microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Azure Stack HCI OS 22H2Fixed in: 10.0.20348.3328
View patch
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Azure Stack HCI OS 23H2Fixed in: 10.0.25398.1486
View patch
microsoftvendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

microsoft2025-Apr/CVE-2025-27489Important

Azure Local Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Apr 8, 2025

References

msrc.microsoft.com / update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2025-27489
Vendor Advisory