# CVE-2024-21330: Open Management Infrastructure (OMI) Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

> Attackers can exploit memory corruption in Microsoft OMI to achieve privilege escalation and execute arbitrary code on affected systems.

- **Severity:** High 7.8 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:P/RL:O/RC:C`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 12 Mar 2024
- **Updated:** 3 May 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-6m8c-mx2x-w4pf

## What is CVE-2024-21330?

CVE-2024-21330 is a high-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Microsoft Azure Automation, published on 12 Mar 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

Open Management Infrastructure (OMI) Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Weakness: CWE-787 (Out-of-bounds Write), CWE-122 (Heap-based Buffer Overflow)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-21330?

It affects 8 products.


Products: Microsoft Azure Automation, Microsoft Azure Automation Update Management, Microsoft Azure Security Center, Microsoft Azure Sentinel, Microsoft Container Monitoring Solution, Microsoft Log Analytics Agent, Microsoft Operations Management Suite Agent for Linux, Microsoft System Center Operations Manager.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-21330?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-21330 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2024-21330 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2024-21330 exists.

## Other vulnerabilities in Microsoft Azure Automation

- [CVE-2025-29827](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-29827/): Azure Automation Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability (critical 9.9)
- [CVE-2019-0962](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2019-0962/): Privilege escalation in Azure Automation (medium 4.9)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-21330 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-21330 is a high-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Microsoft Azure Automation, published on 12 Mar 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2024-21330 exists.

Affected product: Microsoft Azure Automation. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-21330/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-21330/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-21330
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-21330
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-21330

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-21330/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.