Affects Microsoft Azure Arc, a widely used enterprise cloud management platform; network privilege escalation can compromise infrastructure and admin control across organizations.
CVE-2026-62895
Permissive cross-domain policy in Azure Arc enables privilege escalation.
Is CVE-2026-62895 being exploited?
Not confirmed. CVE-2026-62895 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 0.72% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days.
How severe is CVE-2026-62895?
CVE-2026-62895 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-2026-62895?
Yes. A fix has been recorded for CVE-2026-62895. The vendor advisory is the authority on the exact fixed version — apply it from there rather than from a summary.
What does CVE-2026-62895 affect?
CVE-2026-62895 affects Microsoft Azure Arc, Azure Arc-enabled servers, Azure Arc-enabled Kubernetes. Confirm the exact affected versions against the vendor advisory before deciding you are exposed.
What should I do about CVE-2026-62895?
Apply Microsoft security update immediately; restrict cross-domain policies until patched.
Exploitation status reflects CISA's KEV catalog as we last synced it. Check the catalog directly.
Network-based privilege escalation: attacker can exploit permissive cross-domain policy to gain elevated Azure Arc privileges and perform administrative actions.
Immediate action required
- affected>= 1.0.0.0 and < 1.1.3518.465
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.