Headline
CVE-2022-38007: Azure Guest Configuration and Azure Arc-enabled servers Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
What privileges could be gained by an attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability?
An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could replace Microsoft-shipped code with their own code, which would then be run as root in the context of a Guest Configuration daemon. On an Azure VM with the Guest Configuration Linux Extension installed, this would run in the context of the GC Policy Agent daemon. On an Azure Arc-enabled server, it could run in the context of the GC Arc Service or Extension Service daemons.
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20220808
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