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Network-reachable service abused by an existing low-privileged workspace user (PR:L) with no interaction; privilege escalation yields full confidentiality, integrity, and availability impact within an unchanged scope.
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7DescriptionNVD
Execution with unnecessary privileges in Azure Synapse allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges over a network.
AnalysisAI
Privilege escalation in Microsoft Azure Synapse (the cloud analytics service) allows an already-authorized, low-privileged attacker to elevate their privileges over the network, gaining high confidentiality, integrity, and availability impact (CVSS 8.8). The root cause is a component executing with unnecessary privileges (CWE-250), letting a tenant or workspace user with limited rights break out to a higher trust level. No public exploit identified at time of analysis, and EPSS exploitation probability is low (0.50%), with CISA SSVC marking exploitation status as 'none.'
Technical ContextAI
Azure Synapse Analytics is Microsoft's cloud-based enterprise data warehousing and big-data analytics platform, combining SQL pools, Spark pools, data integration pipelines, and serverless query capabilities. The CPE 'cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:azure_synapse:-' confirms the affected component is the Azure Synapse service itself (a hosted SaaS/PaaS offering rather than installable on-premise software). The root cause class is CWE-250 (Execution with Unnecessary Privileges): a process, managed identity, integration runtime, or service component runs at a higher privilege level than its function requires, so an authorized but lower-privileged actor can leverage that over-privileged execution context to perform operations they should not be entitled to.
RemediationAI
Patch available per vendor advisory: Microsoft reports a fix is available, and because Azure Synapse is a Microsoft-managed cloud service the correction is typically deployed server-side by Microsoft rather than installed by customers - review the MSRC advisory at https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2026-48584 to confirm whether any customer-side action (e.g., updating self-hosted integration runtimes, Spark/SQL pool runtime versions, or workspace configurations) is required for full mitigation. As compensating controls, apply least-privilege rigorously to Synapse workspace roles and managed identities (restrict Synapse Administrator/Contributor assignments and audit RBAC), enforce Azure Entra Conditional Access and just-in-time/PIM elevation for privileged Synapse roles to shrink the pool of low-privileged accounts that could trigger the flaw, and restrict workspace network exposure via managed virtual networks, private endpoints, and IP firewall rules to limit which authorized identities can reach the service (trade-off: tightening network and RBAC scope can disrupt legitimate pipelines and integration runtime connectivity, so stage changes carefully).
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EUVD-2026-38088
GHSA-wgqw-grm5-9368