Azure Monitor Agent is widely deployed across Azure customers; privilege escalation enabling lateral movement can impact many organizations and deserves broad attention.
CVE-2026-47632
Improper certificate validation in Azure Monitor Agent enabling privilege escalation and lateral movement
Is CVE-2026-47632 being exploited?
Not confirmed. CVE-2026-47632 does not appear in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, which records only exploitation that has been observed and reported publicly. That is evidence of absence of a report, not evidence the flaw is unattacked. EPSS currently estimates a 0.50% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days.
How severe is CVE-2026-47632?
CVE-2026-47632 is rated High with a CVSS score of 8.8. Severity describes how bad exploitation would be, not how likely it is: pair it with exploitation evidence before deciding what to patch first.
Is there a patch for CVE-2026-47632?
Yes. A fix has been recorded for CVE-2026-47632. The vendor advisory is the authority on the exact fixed version — apply it from there rather than from a summary.
What does CVE-2026-47632 affect?
CVE-2026-47632 affects Azure Monitor Agent (AMA), Azure VMs/hosts with AMA installed. Confirm the exact affected versions against the vendor advisory before deciding you are exposed.
What should I do about CVE-2026-47632?
Apply vendor patch or disable AMA; restrict network access and monitor logs.
Exploitation status reflects CISA's KEV catalog as we last synced it. Check the catalog directly.
Adjacent-network attacker can bypass certificate validation to elevate privileges, execute code as higher-privileged agent, and move laterally.
Immediate action required
- affected>= 1.0.0 and < 1.65
As published in the CVE Program record. A version outside these ranges is not a statement that it is unaffected — vendors sometimes understate a range, and distribution-backported builds carry upstream numbers that do not reflect what was patched into them.