Security News > 2020 > October > Microsoft Azure Flaws Open Admin Servers to Takeover

Researchers have disclosed two flaws in Microsoft's Azure web hosting application service, App Services, which if exploited could enable an attacker to take over administrative servers.

Azure App Services is an HTTP-based service for hosting web applications, and is available in both Microsoft Azure Cloud and on-premise installations.

Researchers found two vulnerabilities in the cloud service that specifically affect Linux servers.

"The two vulnerabilities we found allow us to combine them and enable any attacker with the ability to forge post requests or [remote] code execution on an Azure App Service to take over the Azure App Service administration server," said Paul Litvak, researcher with Intezer, in a Thursday post.

The first flaw stems from an open-source project called KuduLite within Azure App Services.

News URL

https://threatpost.com/microsoft-azure-flaws-servers-takeover/159965/