Microsoft Mitigates Three Vulnerabilities in Azure HDInsight

Summary Summary Microsoft recently remediated one Denial of Service and two Escalation of Privilege vulnerabilities affecting third party components of Azure HDInsight. Access to the target cluster as an authenticated user was a prerequisite for exploitation in all three cases. A successful privilege escalation could result in the attacker assuming the Cluster Administrator role.

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