Microsoft Azure Kubernetes Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability (Microsoft Azure Kubernetes Service)

CVE-2026-56163
CRITICAL 10.0

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.90 % Β· percentile 60 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
microsoft
NVD status
Analyzed

Description

Missing authentication for critical function in Microsoft Azure Kubernetes Service allows an unauthorized attacker to elevate privileges over a network.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-306 β€” Missing Authentication for Critical Functionality

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 10.0CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:Cmicrosoft
CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 10.0CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:HNVD Β· secure@microsoft.com (Secondary)

European references

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Microsoft Β· Azure Kubernetes Serviceaffected -

Sources

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