CVE-2026-23651 is an elevation-of-privilege vulnerability in Azure Compute Gallery caused by a permissive regular expression. The provided content states that an authorized attacker can exploit this weakness to elevate privileges locally. Based on the available information, the flaw appears to stem from insufficient restriction or validation logic implemented through an overly permissive regex, allowing a user with existing authorization to bypass intended privilege boundaries within the local context of the affected Azure Compute Gallery component. No further technical detail about the specific vulnerable function, code path, or affected versions is provided in the source content.
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An elevation-of-privilege vulnerability in Azure Compute Gallery.
A notable Azure infrastructure vulnerability mentioned as part of the largest critical cluster this cycle affecting hybrid-bridge components.
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