CVE-2026-42602CWE-208CWE-287CWE-290CWE-294CWE-347

azureauthextension Authenticate method does not validate bearer tokens, allowing auth bypass via replay

High · published May 13, 2026

CVSS v3.1
8.1
EPSS
0%
Percentile
24.5
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

azureauthextension is the Azure Authenticator Extension. From 0.124.0 to 0.150.0, a server-side authentication bypass in azureauthextension allows any party who holds a single valid Azure access token for any scope the collector's configured identity can mint for to authenticate to any OpenTelemetry receiver that uses auth: azure_auth. The extension's Authenticate method does not validate incoming bearer tokens as JWTs. Instead, it calls its own configured credential to obtain an access token and compares the client's token to the result with string equality — and the scope for that server-side token request is taken from the client-supplied Host header. As a result, a token minted for any Azure resource the service principal has ever been issued a token for (ARM, Graph, Key Vault, Storage, etc.) will authenticate to the collector if the attacker picks a matching Host. Tokens are replayable for the full issued lifetime (commonly several hours for managed identity tokens).

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
8.1 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00326 · 24.5th percentile
Weaknesses
CWE-208 · Observable Timing Discrepancy; CWE-287 · Improper Authentication; CWE-290 · Authentication Bypass by Spoofing; CWE-294 · Authentication Bypass by Capture-replay; CWE-347 · Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature
Published
2026-05-13T20:12Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 13 MAY 20:12Z
    azureauthextension Authenticate method does not validate bearer tokens, allowing auth bypass via replay
    cvelistv5