Azure PlayFab Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
CVE-2025-59247 is a high-severity elevation of privilege vulnerability in Microsoft Azure PlayFab, a hosted backend platform for game development. Public reporting associates the issue with improper privilege management and reliance on cookies or similar client-controlled authentication/authorization artifacts without sufficient validation and integrity checking. The available information suggests PlayFab services may improperly trust privilege-related state supplied by a client, such as cookies or entity-token-related data, enabling manipulation of authorization context and unauthorized privilege elevation within PlayFab services. No public vulnerable code path, function name, proof of concept, or affected version range has been disclosed.
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A vulnerability in Azure PlayFab allowing unauthorized actors to elevate privileges, impacting Azure infrastructure.
A high-severity elevation of privilege vulnerability in Azure PlayFab, caused by improper privilege management and insecure cookie handling, allowing attackers with network access and low privileges to escalate their privileges without user interaction.
A high-severity elevation of privilege vulnerability in Microsoft Azure PlayFab that may stem from improper validation of privilege-related information, potentially involving cookies or entity tokens used for authentication and authorization.
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