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CVE record · CVE-2021-38648

Open Management Infrastructure Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

CVSS 7.8 HighCriticalIn CISA KEVEPSS 0.11 · 96th percentile

Critical, because:

  • In CISA’s KEV catalogue since 3 Nov 2021: it is known to be exploited.
  • CVSS score 7.8 (7.0 or more) and EPSS 0.11 (0.1 or more): a high score and a real chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

How we decide what’s critical

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: microsoft) at 15 Sept 2021, 11:24 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
VendorProductVersions
Microsoft Azure Automation State Configuration, DSC Extension
  • affected 2.0.0 to before DSC Agent versions: 2.71.1.25, 2.70.0.30, 3.0.0.3 custom
Microsoft Azure Automation Update Management
  • affected 1.0.0 to before OMS Agent for Linux GA v1.13.40-0 custom
Microsoft Azure Diagnostics (LAD)
  • affected 3.0.0 to before LAD v4.0.13 and LAD v3.0.135 custom
Microsoft Azure Security Center
  • affected 1.0.0 to before OMS Agent for Linux GA v1.13.40-0 custom
Microsoft Azure Sentinel
  • affected 1.0.0 to before OMS Agent for Linux GA v1.13.40-0 custom
Microsoft Azure Stack Hub
  • affected 1.0.0 to before Monitor, Update and Config Mgmnt 1.14.01 custom
Microsoft Container Monitoring Solution
  • affected 1.0.0 to before publication custom
Microsoft Log Analytics Agent
  • affected 1.0.0 to before OMS Agent for Linux GA v1.13.40-0 custom
Microsoft Open Management Infrastructure
  • affected 16.0 to before OMI Version 1.6.8-1 custom
Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)
  • affected 1.0.0 to before OMI version: 1.6.8-1 custom
Identifiers
CVE-2021-38648
CNA
microsoft
Tags
Published
15 Sept 2021
Updated
10 Aug 2026

Not analysed yet

We haven’t published our own analysis of this CVE. If a person reviews it, this page will say what’s affected and what has to be true for it to matter.

Severity and exploitation

ScoreRatingCVSSVectorSource
7.8 High 3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C CNA (microsoft)
  • CISA KEV Listed since 3 Nov 2021: known to be exploited.
  • EPSS 0.11, the 96th percentile, on 6 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 15 Sept 2021. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

Facts on this page come from the CVE List as the CNA published them, with CVSS from the sources named above, CISA KEV and FIRST EPSS. Vendors, products and versions are shown as the CNA wrote them. We don’t reproduce the CVE’s description.