CVE-2025-59292 Azure Compute Gallery Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
An authorized attacker can elevate privileges locally in Confidential Azure Container Instances via external control of file names or paths.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- An administrator
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2025-59292?
CVE-2025-59292 is a high-severity path traversal vulnerability in Microsoft Azure Compute Gallery, published on 14 Oct 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
External control of file name or path in Confidential Azure Container Instances allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.
Weakness: CWE-73
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-59292?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Microsoft Azure Compute Gallery.
How do I fix CVE-2025-59292?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-59292 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, and resolve every user-supplied path against an allowed base folder before opening it. More about Path traversal.
Is CVE-2025-59292 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-59292 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Microsoft Azure Compute Gallery
Sources
Also known as GHSA-fh6w-c9cf-q94h.