🛡️ CVE-2026-50481 — azure-active-directory

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is changed, meaning a successful attack can affect components beyond the vulnerable one. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability low.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:L

• Attack vector: Network — reachable from anywhere that can route to the service.
• Attack complexity: Low — the attack works reliably, with no preparation.
• Privileges required: Low — an ordinary user account is enough.
• User interaction: None — nobody has to be tricked into anything.
• Scope: Changed — a successful attack reaches components beyond the vulnerable one.
• Confidentiality impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
• Integrity impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
• Availability impact: Low — limited, and the attacker does not choose what is affected.

Weakness class

CVE-2026-50481 is classified as CWE-471: Modification of Assumed-Immutable Data. Data the code treats as fixed can in fact be changed by an attacker.

Affected software

CVE-2026-50481 is recorded against 1 package.

• azure-active-directory

Timeline and source

Published on 7 August 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

msrc.microsoft.com

Other advisories for this package

azure-active-directory has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

• CVE-2026-50653 (7.5 High, published 14 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2026-50652 (7.5 High, published 14 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2026-45480 (10.0 Critical, published 19 Jun 2026)
• CVE-2024-21381 (6.8 Medium, published 13 Feb 2024)

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-471: Modification of Assumed-Immutable Data) in other software:

• CVE-2026-65898 (7.2 High, published 18 Jun 2026)
• CVE-2026-54267 (8.0 High, published 15 Jun 2026)
• CVE-2026-44798 (8.0 High, published 28 May 2026)
• CVE-2026-8492 (2.7 Low, published 19 May 2026)
• CVE-2025-33136 (7.1 High, published 22 May 2025)
• CVE-2024-9876 (7.3 High, published 30 Apr 2025)
• CVE-2024-55551 (8.3 High, published 19 Mar 2025)
• CVE-2024-34517 (5.0 Medium, published 12 Mar 2025)

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