CVE-2026-45480 — Azure Active Directory
CRITICALCVE-2026-45480 is a critical-severity (CVSS 10) Improper Authentication vulnerability in microsoft azure active directory. No vendor fix is recorded yet; mitigation options are listed below.
Improper authentication in Azure Active Directory allows an unauthorized attacker to elevate privileges over a network.
Exploitation Status
No confirmed exploitation observed yet
- CISA assesses this as automatable — exploitation doesn’t require manual, per-target effort, which raises the odds of mass scanning and opportunistic attacks.
- A successful exploit gives an attacker total control of the affected component, not partial access.
- CISA’s own triage has not observed active exploitation or public proof-of-concept code for this CVE as of its last assessment.
Exploitation and automatability from CISA’s SSVC triage for CVE-2026-45480.
EPSS Exploitation Probability
Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, from FIRST.org EPSS.
How urgent is this, really
CVE-2026-45480 by exploitation likelihood (EPSS) against impact (CVSS). Outside the shaded patch-first corner.
Where this sits among everything scored
Of 385,738 CVEs with a current EPSS score, this one falls in the < 10% band (highlighted). Counts from FIRST.org, log-scaled.
Description
Improper authentication in Azure Active Directory allows an unauthorized attacker to elevate privileges over a network.
Affected Products
azure active directorymicrosoftDetection & mitigation playbook
Vendor / applianceDetect
Inventory every microsoft azure active directory deployment and check each version against the affected-products list above.
Remediation status
No patch has shipped for CVE-2026-45480 yet — track the microsoft azure active directory advisory for a fixed release and apply the workarounds below in the meantime.
Mitigate without a patch
Put an independent control in front of the weakness: restrict the affected endpoint or interface to trusted networks, require an additional authentication factor or proxy-level check, and invalidate existing sessions and credentials in case the flaw has already been used. Alongside that, restrict the management interface to trusted networks and apply the vendor's recommended configuration mitigations.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is CVE-2026-45480 being exploited in your environment?
Detect and block the exploit chain at execution, on systems you cannot patch yet.