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AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Adjacent MITM position (AV:A) with no auth or interaction; improper cert validation grants full agent-context compromise, giving high C/I/A within an unchanged scope.
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CVSS VectorVendor: microsoft
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2DescriptionCVE.org
Improper certificate validation in Azure Monitor Agent allows an unauthorized attacker to elevate privileges over an adjacent network.
AnalysisAI
Privilege escalation in Microsoft's Azure Monitor Agent (specifically the Metrics Extension) lets an unauthenticated attacker on an adjacent network gain elevated privileges by exploiting improper TLS certificate validation (CWE-295). Because the agent fails to properly verify the certificate of the endpoint it communicates with, an attacker positioned on the same broadcast/logical network segment can impersonate a trusted server and hijack the agent's privileged context, yielding high confidentiality, integrity, and availability impact. Microsoft rates it CVSS 8.8; there is currently no public exploit identified at time of analysis and it is not listed in CISA KEV.
Technical ContextAI
Azure Monitor Agent (AMA) is Microsoft's unified telemetry collection agent that gathers metrics, logs, and performance data from Azure VMs, Arc-enabled servers, and other resources, forwarding them to Azure Monitor. The affected component per the CPE (cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:azure_monitor_agent_metrics_extension) is the Metrics Extension, which handles metric emission over network channels. The root cause is CWE-295 (Improper Certificate Validation): the agent does not correctly validate the X.509 certificate presented by the server/peer it connects to, meaning it will accept a certificate that is invalid, mismatched, self-signed, or attacker-controlled. This breaks the authenticity guarantee TLS is supposed to provide, enabling a man-in-the-middle actor to masquerade as the legitimate telemetry/control endpoint and inject data or commands that the privileged agent process trusts.
RemediationAI
Patch available per vendor advisory - apply the updated Azure Monitor Agent Metrics Extension released by Microsoft as tracked in the MSRC update guide (https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2026-47632); the exact fixed version is not stated in the provided data, so obtain it from that advisory. The AMA extension is typically auto-updated by the Azure platform, so verify that automatic extension upgrades are enabled and that agents have picked up the current build rather than assuming they are current. As a compensating control until patched, restrict and segment the network paths the agent uses - isolate management/telemetry traffic to trusted subnets, enforce network security group (NSG) rules limiting which hosts can occupy the same adjacent segment as monitored machines, and monitor for rogue devices or ARP/MITM activity on those segments; the trade-off is added network configuration overhead and potential disruption to legitimate telemetry flows if segmentation rules are too tight.
Same weakness CWE-295 – Improper Certificate Validation
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External POC / Exploit Code
Leaving vuln.today
EUVD-2026-43792
GHSA-hhxq-vhpq-pjf3