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Microsoft Open Management Infrastructure (OMI) Privilege Escalation Vulnerability is confirmed as actively exploited and is listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Added to KEV
2021-11-03
Remediation due
2021-11-17

Required action
Apply updates per vendor instructions.

CISA notes
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-38649

Description

Open Management Infrastructure Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Severity

CVSS 3.1 · CNA7 HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C
SSVC · CISA-ADP
Exploitationactive
Automatableno
Technical impacttotal

Affected Products

VendorProductAffected versions
MicrosoftAzure Automation State Configuration, DSC Extension
2.0.0 to <DSC Agent versions: 2.71.1.25, 2.70.0.30, 3.0.0.3
MicrosoftAzure Automation Update Management
1.0.0 to <OMS Agent for Linux GA v1.13.40-0
MicrosoftAzure Diagnostics (LAD)
3.0.0 to <LAD v4.0.13 and LAD v3.0.135
MicrosoftAzure Security Center
1.0.0 to <OMS Agent for Linux GA v1.13.40-0
MicrosoftAzure Sentinel
1.0.0 to <OMS Agent for Linux GA v1.13.40-0
MicrosoftAzure Stack Hub
1.0.0 to <Monitor, Update and Config Mgmnt 1.14.01
MicrosoftContainer Monitoring Solution
1.0.0 to <publication
MicrosoftLog Analytics Agent
1.0.0 to <OMS Agent for Linux GA v1.13.40-0
MicrosoftOpen Management Infrastructure
16.0 to <OMI Version 1.6.8-1
MicrosoftSystem Center Operations Manager (SCOM)
1.0.0 to <OMI version: 1.6.8-1

References

2 Links

Record Details

Published
2021-09-15
Last updated
2026-08-10
Assigner (CNA)
microsoft
Credited to
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