CVE-2025-21396 (GCVE-0-2025-21396)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-01-29 23:07 – Updated: 2026-06-09 18:29 Exclusively Hosted Service
VLAI
Title
Microsoft Account Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Summary
Missing authorization in Microsoft Account allows an unauthorized attacker to elevate privileges over a network.
Severity
8.2 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-01-31 04:55 UTC
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Microsoft Microsoft Account Affected: -
    cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:micrososft_account:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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Date Public
2025-01-29 08:00
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