CVE-2018-8119 — A spoofing vulnerability exists when the Azure IoT Device Provisioning AMQP Tran

A spoofing vulnerability exists when the Azure IoT Device Provisioning AMQP Transport library improperly validates certificates over the AMQP protocol, aka "Azure IoT SDK Spoofing Vulnerability." This affects C# SDK, C SDK, Java SDK.

01What is this vulnerability?

A spoofing vulnerability exists when the Azure IoT Device Provisioning AMQP Transport library improperly validates certificates over the AMQP protocol, aka "Azure IoT SDK Spoofing Vulnerability." This affects C# SDK, C SDK, Java SDK.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Microsoft	C# SDK	Azure IoT
Microsoft	C SDK	Azure IoT
Microsoft	Java SDK	Azure IoT

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2018-05-09T19:00:00.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-05T06:46:13.225Z

09References

• portal.msrc.microsoft.com — https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2018-8119
• www.securityfocus.com — http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104070