Security News > 2023 > January > Microsoft Azure Services Flaws Could've Exposed Cloud Resources to Unauthorized Access

Four different Microsoft Azure services have been found vulnerable to server-side request forgery attacks that could be exploited to gain unauthorized access to cloud resources.

The security issues, which were discovered by Orca between October 8, 2022 and December 2, 2022 in Azure API Management, Azure Functions, Azure Machine Learning, and Azure Digital Twins, have since been addressed by Microsoft.

"The discovered Azure SSRF vulnerabilities allowed an attacker to scan local ports, find new services, endpoints, and sensitive files - providing valuable information on possibly vulnerable servers and services to exploit for initial entry and the location of sensitive information to target," Orca researcher By Lidor Ben Shitrit said in a report shared with The Hacker News.

Two of the vulnerabilities affecting Azure Functions and Azure Digital Twins could be abused without requiring any authentication, enabling a threat actor to seize control of a server without even having an Azure account in the first place.

Three of the flaws are rated Important in severity, while the SSRF flaw impacting Azure Machine Learning is rated Low in severity.

All the weaknesses can be leveraged to manipulate a server to mount further attacks against a susceptible target.

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https://thehackernews.com/2023/01/microsoft-azure-services-flaws-couldve.html