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CVE-2019-1258

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in Azure Active Directory Authentication Library On-Behalf-Of flow, in th

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in Azure Active Directory Authentication Library On-Behalf-Of flow, in the way the library caches tokens. This vulnerability allows an authenticated attacker to perform actions in context of another user. The authenticated attacker can exploit this vulneraiblity by accessing a service configured for On-Behalf-Of flow that assigns incorrect tokens.

This security update addresses the vulnerability by removing fallback cache look-up for On-Behalf-Of scenarios.

HIGH · CVSS 8.8 EPSS 0.10646
Schedule remediation
  • EPSS ≥ 0.10 - elevated exploitation probability
  • EPSS percentile: top 7% of all CVEs by exploitation likelihood
  • CVSS base score ≥ 7.0
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Affected Products & Versions

3

Affected Packages

1
Language-ecosystem packages (from OSV) tied to this CVE, with the version that fixes it - the dependency-level detail NVD doesn’t carry.
NuGet microsoft.identitymodel.clients.activedirectory HIGH fixed in 5.2.0

Scoring & Timeline

8.8
HIGH · CVSS v3.0 · secure@microsoft.com
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Attack Vector
Network Adjacent Local Physical
Attack Complexity
Low High
Privileges Required
None Low High
User Interaction
None Required
Scope
Unchanged Changed
Confidentiality
None Low High
Integrity
None Low High
Availability
None Low High
Published to NVD14 Aug 2019 · 09:15 PM
CVSS VectorCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Vendor Advisories

1
msrcCVE-2019-1258Elevation of Privilege
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References & Sources

1
Source URLs (vendor pages, mailing lists, write-ups). Exploit/PoC links are in their own section above to avoid duplication.
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