# CVE-2026-69854: Spring Cloud Azure Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

- Severity: CVSS 9.0 (Critical), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 7.4.0
- Published: 2026-09-08 · Updated: 2026-10-30

## Summary

Spring Cloud Azure, a toolkit for building Java applications that connect to Microsoft Azure services, is affected by this flaw. An unauthorized attacker on the network could exploit improper authentication to gain higher privileges than they should have.

Model-written summary (anthropic/claude-haiku-5.5). Verify details against the original sources.

## Affected

- Microsoft Spring Cloud Azure: from 1.0.0, fixed in 7.4.0

## Description

Improper authentication in Spring Cloud Azure allows an unauthorized attacker to elevate privileges over a network.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Spring, upgrade to a fixed version (7.4.0) per the references below.
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## References

- https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2026-69854

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