Description
Improper authentication in Spring Cloud Azure allows an unauthorized attacker to elevate privileges over a network.
Published: 2026-09-08
Score: 9 Critical
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: Elevation of Privilege
Action: Patch Immediately
AI Analysis

Impact

The vulnerability is improper authentication in Microsoft Spring Cloud Azure, allowing an attacker who is not authenticated to elevate privileges over a network. By bypassing authentication checks the flaw can give an attacker full control over the affected service, enabling unauthorized access, data tampering, or compromise of the application, categorized as CWE-287.

Affected Systems

Spring Cloud Azure deployments from Microsoft are affected. No version range is specified in the CVE data, implying that any installation that has not applied the vendor’s latest update could be vulnerable.

Risk and Exploitability

The CVSS score of 9 denotes high severity. An EPSS score is not available and the vulnerability is not listed in the CISA KEV catalog. Attackers would need network access to the Spring Cloud Azure endpoints to exploit the authentication bypass, after which they could gain elevated privileges, potentially escalating to full system control.

Generated by OpenCVE AI on September 9, 2026 at 00:04 UTC.

Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

OpenCVE Recommended Actions

  • Deploy the security update released by Microsoft for Spring Cloud Azure
  • Enforce strong authentication policies and eliminate anonymous or default accounts on the service
  • Restrict network access to Spring Cloud Azure management endpoints using firewall rules

Generated by OpenCVE AI on September 9, 2026 at 00:04 UTC.

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Advisories

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History

Fri, 11 Sep 2026 23:45:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


Thu, 10 Sep 2026 20:30:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Microsoft azure Spring Cloud
Vendors & Products Microsoft azure Spring Cloud

Tue, 08 Sep 2026 17:30:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Description Improper authentication in Spring Cloud Azure allows an unauthorized attacker to elevate privileges over a network.
Title Spring Cloud Azure Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
First Time appeared Microsoft
Microsoft spring Cloud Azure
Weaknesses CWE-287
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:spring_cloud_azure:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Vendors & Products Microsoft
Microsoft spring Cloud Azure
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 9, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C'}


Subscriptions

Microsoft Azure Spring Cloud Spring Cloud Azure
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: microsoft

Published:

Updated: 2026-09-25T21:38:04.183Z

Reserved: 2026-08-03T22:51:46.191Z

Link: CVE-2026-69854

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-09-11T20:42:48.872Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2026-09-08T18:19:56.910

Modified: 2026-09-11T21:17:13.587

Link: CVE-2026-69854

cve-icon Redhat

No data.

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-09-10T20:10:45Z

Weaknesses