Introduction
Privilege escalation in cloud networking can lead to full control over critical infrastructure. The recent disclosure of CVE-2025-54914 highlights a severe risk in Microsoft Azure Networking services, with a CVSS score of 10.0 and the potential to impact organizations relying on Azure for core business operations.
Technical Information
CVE-2025-54914 is an elevation of privilege vulnerability in Microsoft Azure Networking services, classified under CWE-284 (Improper Access Control). The vulnerability allows attackers to gain higher-level permissions than intended within Azure networking environments. The root cause is a failure in access control enforcement. No further technical details, exploitation steps, or code snippets have been made public as of the disclosure date. Based on the CVSS 10.0 score, the flaw is presumed to be remotely exploitable and not require user interaction, but no specifics are available.
Affected Systems and Versions
- Product: Microsoft Azure Networking services
- Exact affected versions: Not specified in public sources as of the disclosure date
- Vulnerable configurations: Not specified
Vendor Security History
Microsoft Azure has experienced several critical vulnerabilities in 2025, including:
- CVE-2025-29813 (Azure DevOps pipelines, CVSS 10.0)
- CVE-2025-21415 (Azure AI Face Service, CVSS 9.9) Microsoft typically addresses such vulnerabilities with platform-level mitigations before public disclosure. The frequency of critical Azure vulnerabilities in 2025 has raised concerns about the robustness of Microsoft's security development lifecycle and testing processes.