CVE-2026-62830: CWE-862: Missing Authorization in Microsoft Azure SRE Agent
CVE-2026-62830 is a critical vulnerability in the Microsoft Azure SRE Agent involving missing authorization checks. This flaw allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges over a network, potentially leading to full compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 9.9, indicating a severe impact. Microsoft has released an official fix for this issue. Since Azure SRE Agent is a cloud service, Microsoft manages remediation server-side. There are no known exploits in the wild at this time.
AI Analysis
Technical Summary
CVE-2026-62830 is a missing authorization vulnerability (CWE-862) in the Microsoft Azure SRE Agent. It enables an attacker with some level of authorization to escalate privileges across the network, resulting in complete compromise of the system's confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The vulnerability is remotely exploitable with low attack complexity and does not require user interaction. Microsoft has published an official fix and manages remediation for this cloud-hosted service. No active exploitation has been reported.
Potential Impact
An authorized attacker can elevate privileges over the network, leading to full compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the affected system. This can result in unauthorized access to sensitive data, modification or deletion of data, and disruption of service.
Mitigation Recommendations
Microsoft has released an official fix for this vulnerability and manages remediation for the Azure SRE Agent as a cloud service. Users should ensure their Azure environment is up to date and monitor the Microsoft Security Response Center advisory for confirmation that the fix has been applied.
CVE-2026-62830: CWE-862: Missing Authorization in Microsoft Azure SRE Agent
Description
CVE-2026-62830 is a critical vulnerability in the Microsoft Azure SRE Agent involving missing authorization checks. This flaw allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges over a network, potentially leading to full compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 9.9, indicating a severe impact. Microsoft has released an official fix for this issue. Since Azure SRE Agent is a cloud service, Microsoft manages remediation server-side. There are no known exploits in the wild at this time.
CVSS v3.1
Score 9.9critical
Weaknesses
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Machine-generated threat intelligence
Technical Analysis
CVE-2026-62830 is a missing authorization vulnerability (CWE-862) in the Microsoft Azure SRE Agent. It enables an attacker with some level of authorization to escalate privileges across the network, resulting in complete compromise of the system's confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The vulnerability is remotely exploitable with low attack complexity and does not require user interaction. Microsoft has published an official fix and manages remediation for this cloud-hosted service. No active exploitation has been reported.
Potential Impact
An authorized attacker can elevate privileges over the network, leading to full compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the affected system. This can result in unauthorized access to sensitive data, modification or deletion of data, and disruption of service.
Mitigation Recommendations
Microsoft has released an official fix for this vulnerability and manages remediation for the Azure SRE Agent as a cloud service. Users should ensure their Azure environment is up to date and monitor the Microsoft Security Response Center advisory for confirmation that the fix has been applied.
Technical Details
- Data Version
- 5.2
- Assigner Short Name
- microsoft
- Date Reserved
- 2026-07-14T21:10:38.082Z
- Cvss Version
- 3.1
- State
- PUBLISHED
- Remediation Level
- official-fix
- Is Cloud Service
- true
- Vendor Advisory Urls
- [{"url":"https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2026-62830","vendor":"Microsoft"}]
Threat ID: 6a752655bf8831d5398099e3
Added to database: 08/07/2026, 00:27:01 UTC
Last enriched: 08/07/2026, 00:42:19 UTC
Last updated: 08/07/2026, 03:26:56 UTC
Views: 5
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