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RCE via unsafe deserialization in Azure SDK (Azure SDK for Python)

IdentifiersCVE-2026-21531CWE-502· Deserialization of Untrusted Data

Information currently not available to provide a detailed vulnerability description beyond what is in the provided content. Provided content states: CVE-2026-21531 is an Azure SDK vulnerability where deserialization of untrusted data allows an unauthorized attacker to execute code over a network (mapped to CWE-502). CVSS v3.1 vector is AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

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Information currently not available to provide a detailed impact description beyond what is in the provided content. Provided content indicates remote code execution over the network with high confidentiality, integrity, and availability impact (CVSS C:H/I:H/A:H).

Mitigation

If you can’t patch tonight, do this now.

Information currently not available to provide authoritative mitigations from Microsoft beyond what is in the provided content. The provided content suggests restricting network access to systems/services using the affected library (segmentation/allowlisting) and avoiding processing untrusted attacker-controlled serialized inputs until patched.

Remediation

Patch, then assume compromise.

Information currently not available to provide authoritative remediation from Microsoft beyond what is in the provided content. The provided content includes a GHSA-style advisory indicating upgrading the PyPI package azure-ai-language-conversations-authoring to 1.0.0b4 or later as the first fixed version.
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Affected products & vendors

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VendorProductType
Microsoft CorporationAzure Ai Language Authoringapplication
Microsoft CorporationAzure Conversation Authoring Client Libraryapplication
Microsoft CorporationAzure Sdk For Python (Azure Ai Language Conversations Authoring Sdk)application

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