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Azure Synapse CVE-2026-48584

| EUVDEUVD-2026-38088 HIGH
Execution with Unnecessary Privileges (CWE-250)
2026-06-19 secure@microsoft.com GHSA-wgqw-grm5-9368
8.8
CVSS 3.1 · NVD
Temporal: 8.6
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Severity by source

Vendor (microsoft) PRIMARY
CRITICAL
qualitative
NVD
8.8 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CIRCL (temporal)
8.6 HIGH
cvss
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8.8 HIGH

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.

3.1 AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
4.0 AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Primary rating from Vendor (microsoft).

CVSS VectorNVD

Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
Low
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High

Lifecycle Timeline

7
Analysis Updated
Jun 29, 2026 - 15:29 vuln.today
v3 (cvss_changed)
Analysis Updated
Jun 29, 2026 - 15:28 vuln.today
v2 (cvss_changed)
Re-analysis Queued
Jun 29, 2026 - 15:22 vuln.today
cvss_changed
Severity Changed
Jun 29, 2026 - 15:22 NVD
CRITICAL HIGH
CVSS changed
Jun 29, 2026 - 15:22 NVD
9.9 (CRITICAL) 8.8 (HIGH)
Analysis Generated
Jun 19, 2026 - 21:41 vuln.today
CVE Published
Jun 19, 2026 - 21:17 nvd
CRITICAL 9.9

DescriptionNVD

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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