CVE-2025-21199
Azure Agent Installer for Backup and Site Recovery Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Improper privilege management in Azure Agent Installer allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.
Attack profile
How easy it is to exploit
- Attack vector
- Local
- Complexity
- High
- Privileges needed
- Low
- User interaction
- Required
What an attacker can affect
- Confidentiality
- High
- Integrity
- High
- Availability
- High
Exploit likelihood
What each source reports
CVE List Score used
Azure Agent Installer for Backup and Site Recovery Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Improper privilege management in Azure Agent Installer allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.
- Record
CVE-2025-21199- CVSS 3.1
- 6.7 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C - Weakness
- CWE-269
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2025-6342
Improper privilege management in Azure Agent Installer allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.
- Record
EUVD-2025-6342- CVSS 3.1
- 6.7 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C - Updated
- 2026-11-02
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-95f7-jm6f-gv7p
Improper privilege management in Azure Agent Installer allows an authorized attacker to elevate...
Improper privilege management in Azure Agent Installer allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.
- Record
GHSA-95f7-jm6f-gv7p- CVSS 3.1
- 6.7 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H - Weakness
- CWE-269
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
NVD
Improper privilege management in Azure Agent Installer allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.
- Record
CVE-2025-21199- CVSS 3.1
- 6.7 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H - Weakness
- CWE-269
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
Affected products
History
| Recorded | Changed | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| first indexed | CVE List, EUVD, GitHub Advisories, NVD |
Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.
In short
CVE-2025-21199 is a medium vulnerability (CVSS 6.7) in Microsoft Azure Agent, published March 11, 2025. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 0.45%, the 39th percentile. No source names a fixed version.