A critical vulnerability discovered by Varonis Threat Labs has exposed users of Microsoft Azure’s AI and High-Performance Computing (HPC) workloads to a potential privilege escalation attack.
The flaw, found in a utility pre-installed on select Azure Linux virtual machines, made it possible for an unprivileged local user to gain root access-a severe breach of the principle of least privilege.
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