Administrator credential disclosure via exposed provisioning data
Published Nov 15, 2024 · Updated Jul 8, 2025
Hard-coded credentials in Microsoft Azure Stack HCI OS before 10.0.25398.2411 allow local users to obtain administrator credentials. VM creation data exposes the local administrator credentials to non-administrative users on both the guest VM and its Azure Stack HCI hosts. Low-privilege local access to either location is required, and the disclosed credentials enable privilege escalation beyond the account's assigned rights.
Summary
What happened
Hard-coded credentials in Microsoft Azure Stack HCI OS before 10.0.25398.2411 allow local users to obtain administrator credentials. VM creation data exposes the local administrator credentials to non-administrative users on both the guest VM and its Azure Stack HCI hosts. Low-privilege local access to either location is required, and the disclosed credentials enable privilege escalation beyond the account's assigned rights.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2024-49060
- Published
- Nov 15, 2024
- Updated
- Jul 8, 2025
- Vendor
- Microsoft
- Product
- Azure Stack HCI OS
- Classifications
- CWE-798, T1552
- Attack vector
- local
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Nov 15, 2024CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Jul 8, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=10.0.25398.0 <10.0.25398.2411
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