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Elevation of Privilege in Azure Compute Gallery via External Control of File Name or Path

IdentifiersCVE-2025-59292CWE-73· External Control of File Name or…

CVE-2025-59292 is an elevation-of-privilege vulnerability in Microsoft Azure Compute Gallery. The available description states that the issue is caused by external control of a file name or path, indicating that attacker-influenced path or filename handling in the affected Azure Compute Gallery context can be abused to perform operations on unintended files or resources. Publicly available content does not provide the specific vulnerable function, code path, affected component versioning, or a detailed exploitation sequence. The vulnerability is described as allowing an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.

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Impact

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Successful exploitation can allow privilege escalation within the affected Azure Compute Gallery context. Based on the available description, an attacker who already has authorized access could leverage improper file/path handling to gain elevated rights beyond those originally granted. Public sources provided here do not specify whether the resulting privileges are administrative, service-level, tenant-scoped, or host-level, so the exact blast radius is currently not available.

Mitigation

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If immediate remediation cannot be confirmed, reduce exposure by enforcing least-privilege access to Azure Compute Gallery-related resources and workflows, restricting which principals can supply or influence file names and paths, monitoring for anomalous local privilege-escalation behavior in gallery management operations, and limiting access to trusted administrative users only. The provided content does not include any Microsoft-published workaround, so specific mitigations beyond general hardening are currently not available.

Remediation

Patch, then assume compromise.

Apply the Microsoft security updates or service-side fixes released for CVE-2025-59292 in Azure Compute Gallery. Because the provided content does not include affected versions, patch KBs, or configuration-specific guidance, the authoritative remediation is to follow Microsoft’s October 2025 security advisory and ensure the affected Azure service components are updated or remediated by Microsoft.
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