CVE-2026-56160Critical
Azure Red Hat OpenShift (ARO) Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Assessment
Improper authorization in Azure Red Hat OpenShift (ARO) allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges over a network.
- Severity
- Critical
- CVSS base score
- Not published
- Impact
- Elevation of Privilege
- EPSS, next 30 days
- 0.8%Higher than 54.5% of scored CVEs · FIRST model run 26 Sep 2026 · about EPSS
- Exploitability
- Not assessed
- Publicly disclosed
- No
- Customer action
- Not required (service-side fix)
- Component
- Azure Red Hat OpenShift (ARO)
- Weakness
- CWE-285: Improper Authorization
- Issued by
- Microsoft
- Published
- 23 Jul 2026 · July 2026
- Last revised
- 23 Jul 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.
Affected products
Azure1 affected product
- Azure Red Hat OpenShift (ARO)