🛡️ CVE-2021-28458 — ms-rest-nodeauth

🟠 CVSS 8.0 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-269 OSV
8.0
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

Improper Privilege Management in Azure ms-rest-nodeauth

Azure ms-rest-nodeauth Library Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. A user must be tricked into taking some action. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

Weakness class

CVE-2021-28458 is classified as CWE-269: Improper Privilege Management. Privileges are assigned, dropped or restored incorrectly, leaving an actor with more access than intended.

Affected software

CVE-2021-28458 is recorded against 1 package.

  • @azure/ms-rest-nodeauth

Timeline and source

Published on 24 May 2022 and last revised on 2 January 2024. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Package)
portal.msrc.microsoft.com (Web)

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-269
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2022-05-24
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2024-01-02
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
@azure/ms-rest-nodeauth — —

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