CVE-2025-29972
Published: 08 May 2025
Summary
CVE-2025-29972 is a critical-severity SSRF (CWE-918) vulnerability in Microsoft Azure Storage Resource Provider. Its CVSS base score is 9.9 (Critical).
Operationally, ranked in the top 9.4% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
Deeper analysis
CVE-2025-29972 is a server-side request forgery vulnerability, tracked under CWE-918, that affects the Azure Storage Resource Provider. The flaw carries a CVSS 3.1 base score of 9.9 and permits an attacker to induce the server into making unauthorized requests to internal or external resources.
An authorized attacker with network access can exploit the issue to perform spoofing attacks. Successful exploitation can result in high impact to confidentiality, integrity, and availability, with the attack crossing security boundaries due to the changed scope in the CVSS vector.
The Microsoft Security Response Center advisory for CVE-2025-29972 is available at https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2025-29972. The associated EPSS score remains low, with a current value of 0.0573 and a peak of 0.0593.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2025-14050
Vulnerability details
Server-side request forgery (ssrf) in Azure Storage Resource Provider allows an authorized attacker to perform spoofing over a network.
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
Likely Mitigating Controls AI
Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.
Penetration testing attempts server-side requests to internal resources, identifying SSRF weaknesses for remediation.
Outbound connections to external resources can be monitored and limited at the boundary, reducing SSRF impact.
Validates server-side URLs and resource references to block SSRF attempts.
Detects server-side request forgery through monitoring of unexpected outbound connections.