Azure Entra ID Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

CVE-2025-55241 is an elevation of privilege vulnerability in Azure Entra (rated Critical, CVSS 10.0). Microsoft fixed it in the service; customers need to do nothing.

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Facts

Microsoft id
CVE-2025-55241
Products
Azure Entra
Severity
Critical
Impact
Elevation of Privilege
CVSS
10.0
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C
Exploited
No
Publicly disclosed
No
Customer action required
No
Release
2025-Sep
Assigned by
Microsoft
Weakness
CWE-287: Improper Authentication
MSRC revision
1.1
First captured by us
(from our first import of this list)
Microsoft last modified
Source
Security updates · open the original at Microsoft

Microsoft's revision notes

  1. Revision 1.0, 2025-09-04: Information published.
  2. Revision 1.1, 2025-09-18: The CVSS score for this vulnerability has been updated to reflect a change in the **Attack Complexity** metric from **High** to **Low**.

Microsoft says

Azure Entra ID Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability Improper authentication in Azure Entra allows an unauthorized attacker to elevate privileges over a network.

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