SARA / Free Tools / KEV / CVE-2021-38648

CVE-2021-38648 on CISA KEV

Open Management Infrastructure Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

CISA KEV — Actively Exploited

Microsoft Open Management Infrastructure (OMI) Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Vendor / Product
— / Microsoft / Open Management Infrastructure (OMI)
Added to KEV
2021-11-03
BOD 22-01 due
2021-11-17
Ransomware use
Unknown
CVSS / EPSS
7.8 HIGH · EPSS 31.79%

01What CISA says about this vulnerability

Open Management Infrastructure Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

02Required action — verbatim from CISA

Apply updates per vendor instructions.

03Notes & references

04SARA's analyst layer — why this matters

This vulnerability is currently on the CISA KEV list, which CISA only adds CVEs to when there is reliable evidence of active exploitation in the wild. For federal civilian agencies, BOD 22-01 requires remediation by the due date above. For everyone else, KEV is the strongest "patch immediately" signal you can get from public threat intel.

05Affected products (summary)

VendorProductVersions
MicrosoftOpen Management Infrastructure16.0
MicrosoftSystem Center Operations Manager (SCOM)1.0.0
MicrosoftAzure Automation State Configuration, DSC Extension2.0.0
MicrosoftAzure Automation Update Management1.0.0
MicrosoftLog Analytics Agent1.0.0
MicrosoftAzure Diagnostics (LAD)3.0.0
MicrosoftContainer Monitoring Solution1.0.0
MicrosoftAzure Security Center1.0.0
MicrosoftAzure Sentinel1.0.0
MicrosoftAzure Stack Hub1.0.0, 1.0.0

06Detection

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