Azure Monitor Agent Metrics Extension Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability (Microsoft Azure Monitor Agent Metrics Extension)

CVE-2026-42830
MEDIUM 6.5

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.47 % · percentile 41 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
microsoft
NVD status
Analyzed

Description

Untrusted search path in Azure Monitor Agent allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-426 — Untrusted Search Path

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N/E:U/RL:O/RC:Cmicrosoft
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:NNVD · secure@microsoft.com (Secondary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Microsoft · Azure Monitor Agent Metrics Extensionaffected 1.0.0 < 1.42.0

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD