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azcmagent
About this tag
The azcmagent tag covers discussions about the Azure Connected Machine Agent used in Azure Arc, focusing on multiple elevation-of-privilege vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-24302, CVE-2026-21224, CVE-2025-59503, CVE-2025-58724, CVE-2025-49692). These flaws allow local low-privileged users to escalate to SYSTEM/root on affected hosts and potentially abuse machine-assigned identities and extension management to access Azure resources. Content includes patch guidance, CVE mapping to vendor advisories, and remediation strategies for IT administrators managing hybrid and multi-cloud environments with Azure Arc.
Microsoft’s advisory entry for CVE‑2026‑24302 identifies an elevation‑of‑privilege weakness affecting Azure Arc / Azure Connected Machine (azcmagent) components, but public technical details remain intentionally sparse; defenders must therefore treat the advisory as urgent while mapping the CVE...
A high‑confidence elevation‑of‑privilege vulnerability has been recorded in the Azure Connected Machine (azcmagent) / Azure Arc agent ecosystem under CVE‑2026‑21224, touching an agent component that bridges on‑host systems with the Azure management plane — a class of flaws that can convert a...
Microsoft has published an advisory for CVE-2026-21224, an elevation‑of‑privilege vulnerability in the Azure Connected Machine Agent (azcmagent), that — if successfully exploited — can allow a local, low‑privileged actor to escalate to SYSTEM/root on managed servers and potentially abuse...
Microsoft’s advisory ecosystem has flagged an elevation‑of‑privilege issue affecting Azure compute management components that can let an authenticated local user escalate to system/root on an affected host and, crucially, potentially abuse machine‑assigned identities and extension management...
A high‑impact elevation‑of‑privilege flaw has been disclosed in the Azure Connected Machine (Azure Arc) agent that can let an authenticated local user — or an attacker with low‑privileged local execution — escalate to SYSTEM/root on Arc‑enabled servers, and potentially abuse machine identities...
A new elevation-of-privilege (EoP) vulnerability in the Azure Connected Machine (Azure Arc) agent — tracked publicly under multiple CVE identifiers including CVE-2025-58724 in recent feeds — has been confirmed as an improper access control issue that allows an authorized local user to escalate...
CVE-2025-49692 Azure Connected Machine Agent Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Overview
What happened: Microsoft has posted an advisory for CVE‑2025‑49692 describing an improper access control vulnerability in the Azure Connected Machine (Windows Virtual Machine) Agent that can allow an...