CVE-2024-43470

FAQ

Is there any action I need to take to be protected from this vulnerability?

If you have enabled automatic updates, you will automatically receive the update as soon as it is available. If you have not enabled automatic updates, you will need to update the product manually.

Please see Update Network Watcher extension to the latest version - Azure Virtual Machines | Microsoft Learn for more information.

What privileges could be gained by an attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability?

An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain administrator privileges.

According to the CVSS metric, user interaction is required (UI:R). What interaction would the user have to do?

Exploitation of the vulnerability requires an admin user to stop or restart the service.

According to the CVSS metric, privileges required is low (PR:L). What does that mean for this vulnerability?

Any authenticated attacker could trigger this vulnerability. It does not require admin or other elevated privileges.