CVE-2026-42830Important
Azure Monitor Agent Metrics Extension Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Assessment
Untrusted search path in Azure Monitor Agent allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.
- Severity
- Important
- CVSS base score
- 6.5CVSS:3.1/
AV:L/ AC:L/ PR:L/ UI:N/ S:C/ C:N/ I:H/ A:N/ E:U/ RL:O/ RC:C - Impact
- Elevation of Privilege
- EPSS, next 30 days
- 0.6%Higher than 48.8% of scored CVEs · FIRST model run 29 Sep 2026 · about EPSS
- Public exploit code
- No Nuclei template lists it
- Exploitability
- Exploitation Less Likely
- Publicly disclosed
- No
- Customer action
- Required: apply the update
- Component
- Azure Monitor Agent
- Weakness
- CWE-426: Untrusted Search Path
- Issued by
- Microsoft
- Published
- 12 May 2026 · May 2026
- Last revised
- 12 May 2026
Updates that fix it
0 KBsNo KB listed
MSRC lists no downloadable update, which usually means a service-side fix or a release-notes update. Check the MSRC advisory.