Azure Identity Libraries and Microsoft Authentication Library Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

published 2024-06-11 2 y ago modified 2026-09-10 1 mo ago also GHSA-m5vv-6r4h-3vj9 , GO-2024-2918 , PYSEC-2026-1209 , EUVD-2024-2098

cvss: 5.5; version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.8%; EPSS 0.8% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 57%
public exploits: 0; none known

Patch / fix

fixed in 15 distros 3 links 6

pypi azure-identity 1.16.1
npm @azure/identity 4.2.1
maven com.azure:azure-identity 1.12.2
npm @azure/msal-node 2.9.2
nuget Microsoft.Identity.Client 4.60.4, 4.61.3
go github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-go/sdk/azidentity 1.6.0, 1.6.0-beta.4.0.20240610221955-50774cd97099
maven com.microsoft.azure:msal4j 1.15.1
nuget Azure.Identity 1.11.4
Microsoft Azure Identity Library 1.6.0
Microsoft Azure Identity Library for .NET 1.11.4
Microsoft Azure Identity Library for C++ 1.8.0
Microsoft Azure Identity Library for Java 1.12.2
Microsoft Azure Identity Library for JavaScript 4.2.1
Microsoft Azure Identity Library for Python 1.16.1
Microsoft Microsoft Authentication Library 1.15.1

suse opensuse azure linux

azure-cli SLE Module for Public Cloud 15 SP7, SLE Module for Public Cloud 15 SP6, SLE Module for Public Cloud 15 SP5 +2 more 2.82.0-150400.14.23.1
python-h11 SLE Module for Python 3 15 SP7, SLE Module for Public Cloud 15 SP6, SLE Module for Public Cloud 15 SP5 +2 more 0.14.0-150400.9.8.1
python-msal SLE Module for Public Cloud 15 SP7, SLE Module for Public Cloud 15 SP6, SLE Module for Public Cloud 15 SP5 +2 more 1.35.0~b1-150400.11.11.2
python-trio SLE Module for Python 3 15 SP7, SLE Module for Public Cloud 15 SP6, SLE Module for Public Cloud 15 SP5 +2 more 0.30.0-150400.9.8.1
python-anyio SLE Module for Python 3 15 SP7, SLE Module for Public Cloud 15 SP6, SLE Module for Public Cloud 15 SP5 +2 more 4.1.0-150400.9.6.1
python-httpx SLE Module for Python 3 15 SP7, SLE Module for Public Cloud 15 SP6, SLE Module for Public Cloud 15 SP5 +2 more 0.24.0-150400.9.7.1
azure-cli-core SLE Module for Public Cloud 15 SP7, SLE Module for Public Cloud 15 SP6, SLE Module for Public Cloud 15 SP5 +2 more 2.82.0-150400.14.14.1
python-outcome SLE Module for Python 3 15 SP7, SLE Module for Public Cloud 15 SP6, SLE Module for Public Cloud 15 SP5 +2 more 1.2.0-150400.9.5.1

suse advisories SUSE-RU-2026:2237-1 SUSE-SU-2025:0750-1 SUSE-SU-2024:3345-1

python-azure-identity openSUSE Tumbleweed 1.25.3-1.3
python-azure-identity openSUSE Tumbleweed 1.18.0-1.1
teleport openSUSE Tumbleweed 15.4.3-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2026:11999-1 openSUSE-SU-2024:14362-1 openSUSE-SU-2024:14048-1

keda Azure Linux 3.0 2.14.1-1
prometheus Azure Linux 3.0 2.45.4-12
telegraf Azure Linux 3.0 1.31.0-9
application-gateway-kubernetes-ingress Azure Linux 3.0 1.7.7-1
telegraf CBL-Mariner 2.0 1.29.4-6
azcopy CBL-Mariner 2.0, Azure Linux 3.0 10.25.1-1
blobfuse2 Azure Linux 3.0 2.3.2-1

azure linux advisories AZL-42637 AZL-42646 AZL-42649 AZL-42655 AZL-42664 AZL-42789

Azure Linux vulnerability data, Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation, from https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData via OSV, under the MIT licence; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. MIT

github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-go@50774cd commit
github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-java@5bf020d commit
github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-js@c6aa75d commit
github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-net@9279a4f commit
github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-python@cb065ac commit
msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2024-35255 advisory

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2024-35255 updated 2026-11-07 cvss 5.5

azure-identity: Azure Identity Libraries Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability in github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-go/sdk/azidentity

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 aap-cloud-metrics-collector-container Red Hat build of Apache Camel for Spring Boot 3 azure-identity Red Hat build of Quarkus azure-identity Red Hat Integration Camel K 1 azure-identity
affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
Red Hat OpenShift AI (RHOAI) rhoai/odh-modelmesh-runtime-adapter-rhel9
affected: no fix available “Fix deferred”
Red Hat cert-manager operator for Red Hat OpenShift 1.15 cert-manager
fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2025:0536
Red Hat build of Apache Camel 4 for Quarkus 3
fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2024:7052
Red Hat Developer Hub 1.3 for RHEL 9 rhdh/rhdh-hub-rhel9 1.3-100
fixed: vendor fix RHBA-2024:7523
Red Hat Exploit Intelligence exploit-intelligence-tech-preview/vulnerability-analysis-rhel9 Red Hat AI Inference Server rhaiis/vllm-cpu-rhel9, rhaiis/vllm-tpu-rhel9 Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 ansible-automation-platform-25/ee-minimal-rhel8, ansible-automation-platform-24/ee-supported-rhel9, ansible-automation-platform-24/ansible-builder-rhel9, ansible-automation-platform-25/ee-cloud-services-rhel9, ansible-automation-platform-24/ee-dellemc-openmanage-rhel8, ansible-automation-platform-24/platform-resource-runner-rhel8 Red Hat build of Apache Camel for Spring Boot 4 azure-identity Red Hat Developer Hub 1 rhdh-operator-container Red Hat Developer Hub 1.3 for RHEL 9 rhdh/rhdh-rhel9-operator 1.3-96, rhdh/rhdh-operator-bundle 1.3-95

+4 more productsfewer

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 fence-agents-common Red Hat OpenShift AI (RHOAI) rhoai/odh-maas-api-rhel9, rhoai/odh-kserve-agent-rhel9, rhoai/odh-kserve-router-rhel9, rhoai/odh-model-registry-rhel9, rhoai/odh-mod-arch-gen-ai-rhel9, rhoai/odh-model-controller-rhel9, +5 more Red Hat Openshift Data Foundation 4 odf4/mcg-core-rhel9 Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces devspaces/code-rhel8

not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical impact: total
Assessed: 2 y ago (2024-06-13)

Exploit prediction

0.83% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 57% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
CNA	3.1	5.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N/E:U/RL:O/RC:C
CNA	3.1	5.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
GitHub	3.1	5.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
OSV	3.1	5.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem	package	affected	fixed in
pypi	azure-identity	<1.16.1	1.16.1
npm	@azure/identity	<4.2.1	4.2.1
maven	com.azure:azure-identity	<1.12.2	1.12.2
npm	@azure/msal-node	>=2.7.0, <2.9.2	2.9.2
nuget	Microsoft.Identity.Client	>=4.49.1, <4.60.4 >=4.61.0, <4.61.3	4.60.4 4.61.3
go	github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-go/sdk/azidentity	<1.6.0-beta.4.0.20240610221955-50774cd97099 <1.6.0	1.6.0-beta.4.0.20240610221955-50774cd97099 1.6.0
maven	com.microsoft.azure:msal4j	>=1.14.4-beta, <1.15.1	1.15.1
nuget	Azure.Identity	<1.11.4	1.11.4

Affected products

Microsoft Azure Identity Library
Microsoft Azure Identity Library for .NET
Microsoft Azure Identity Library for C++
Microsoft Azure Identity Library for Java
Microsoft Azure Identity Library for JavaScript
Microsoft Azure Identity Library for Python
Microsoft Microsoft Authentication Library

Classification

Weakness

CWE-362 Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization

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.

Summary