KLA11973 Multiple vulnerabilites in Microsoft Azure

Multiple vulnerabilities were found in Microsoft Azure. Malicious users can exploit these vulnerabilities to gain privileges.

Below is a complete list of vulnerabilities:

1. An elevation of privilege vulnerability in Network Watcher Agent Virtual Machine Extension for Linux can be exploited remotely via IMPORTANTTHING to gain privileges.
2. An elevation of privilege vulnerability in Azure Functions can be exploited remotely via IMPORTANTTHING to gain privileges.

Original advisories

CVE-2020-16995

CVE-2020-16904

Related products

Microsoft-Azure

CVE list

CVE-2020-16995 critical

CVE-2020-16904 high

KB list

Solution

Install necessary updates from the KB section, that are listed in your Windows Update (Windows Update usually can be accessed from the Control Panel)

Impacts

• PE

Privilege escalation. Exploitation of vulnerabilities with this impact can lead to performing by abuser actions, which are normally disallowed for current role.

Affected Products

• Network Watcher Agent virtual machine extension for LinuxAzure Functions