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Fencer Vulns
critical 9.8

CVE-2019-0729 json

An Elevation of Privilege vulnerability exists in the way Azure IoT Java SDK generates symmetric keys for encryption, allowing an attacker…

published 2019-03-05 7 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2019-1489

cvss
9.8
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
3.1%
EPSS 3.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 87%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

An Elevation of Privilege vulnerability exists in the way Azure IoT Java SDK generates symmetric keys for encryption, allowing an attacker to predict the randomness of the key, aka 'Azure IoT Java SDK Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability'.

Patch / fix

Exploit prediction

3.13% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 87% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 9.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected products

  • Microsoft Java SDK for Azure IoT

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-330 Use of Insufficiently Random Values

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.