CVE-2025-54914
Published: 04 September 2025
Summary
CVE-2025-54914 is a critical-severity Improper Access Control (CWE-284) vulnerability in Microsoft Azure Networking. Its CVSS base score is 10.0 (Critical).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploitation for Privilege Escalation (T1068); ranked in the top 43.3% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
The strongest mitigations our analysis identified are NIST 800-53 AC-3 (Access Enforcement) and SI-2 (Flaw Remediation).
Threat & Defense at a Glance
Threat & Defense Details
Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5)AI
Enforces approved authorizations for logical access to information and system resources, directly mitigating the improper access control (CWE-284) that enables unauthenticated privilege escalation in Azure Networking.
Requires timely remediation of identified flaws such as this CVE through patching, preventing remote exploitation of the vulnerability in Azure Networking components.
Limits privileges to the minimum necessary, reducing the impact and scope of privilege escalation resulting from the access control vulnerability.
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
Direct EoP vulnerability (CWE-284) with remote unauthenticated attack vector enables T1068 Exploitation for Privilege Escalation.
NVD Description
Azure Networking Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Deeper analysisAI
CVE-2025-54914 is an Elevation of Privilege vulnerability in Azure Networking, published on 2025-09-04. It carries a CVSS v3.1 base score of 10.0 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H) and is associated with CWE-284 (Improper Access Control), with additional NVD-CWE-noinfo mapping.
The vulnerability enables remote exploitation by unauthenticated attackers with low complexity and no user interaction required. Successful attacks result in privilege escalation, achieving high impacts across confidentiality, integrity, and availability, accompanied by a scope change that amplifies the potential damage.
Microsoft's Security Response Center provides an update guide at https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2025-54914, detailing mitigation strategies and available patches for affected Azure Networking components.
Details
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