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Microsoft Exchange Online EUVDEUVD-2026-38090

| CVE-2026-48582 CRITICAL
Missing Authorization (CWE-862)
2026-06-19 secure@microsoft.com GHSA-j97v-rpjv-q4wf
9.6
CVSS 3.1 · Vendor: microsoft
Temporal: 8.3
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Severity by source

Vendor (microsoft) PRIMARY
9.6 CRITICAL
AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N
CIRCL (temporal)
8.3 HIGH
cvss
vuln.today AI
9.6 CRITICAL

Network-reachable SaaS endpoint (AV:N), no special conditions (AC:L), requires any authenticated tenant user (PR:L), no victim interaction (UI:N), missing authz crosses tenant/role boundary (S:C) with high C/I and no availability impact.

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

Primary rating from Vendor (microsoft).

CVSS VectorVendor: microsoft

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

Lifecycle Timeline

2
Analysis Generated
Jun 19, 2026 - 21:40 vuln.today
CVE Published
Jun 19, 2026 - 21:17 nvd
CRITICAL 9.6

DescriptionCVE.org

Missing authorization in Microsoft Exchange Online allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges over a network.

AnalysisAI

Privilege escalation in Microsoft Exchange Online allows an authenticated remote attacker to elevate privileges across a tenant or organizational boundary due to missing authorization checks. The flaw carries a CVSS 3.1 score of 9.6 with scope change, indicating impact beyond the initially authorized security context, though no public exploit identified at time of analysis. As a cloud-hosted service, mitigation is largely Microsoft-managed rather than a customer-applied patch.

Technical ContextAI

Microsoft Exchange Online is the cloud-hosted email and calendaring service delivered as part of Microsoft 365, built on top of the Exchange Server platform but operated as a multi-tenant SaaS. The root cause is CWE-862 (Missing Authorization), meaning code paths that perform a privileged action fail to verify that the calling principal is actually entitled to perform it. In a multi-tenant cloud mail platform, such gaps typically appear in REST endpoints, EWS/Graph operations, or administrative management surfaces where role and tenant boundary checks must be enforced server-side; a missing check lets a low-privileged identity invoke functionality reserved for higher-privileged roles.

RemediationAI

Patch available per vendor advisory: because Exchange Online is a Microsoft-managed cloud service, the fix is deployed by Microsoft to the service backend and does not require customer-side patching - administrators should review https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2026-48582 to confirm the service-side mitigation has reached their tenant and whether any configuration action is required. As compensating controls while verifying remediation status, enforce Conditional Access policies that require MFA and compliant devices for all Exchange Online access (which limits the pool of attackers who can authenticate at PR:L), restrict legacy authentication protocols such as Basic Auth and EWS where business-tolerable (reducing attack surface but potentially breaking legacy clients), audit Unified Audit Log for anomalous role assignments and mailbox permission grants, and review privileged Exchange role group membership (Organization Management, Recipient Management) to shrink blast radius. None of these workarounds substitute for Microsoft's backend fix.

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