Description
<p>An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in the way Azure Functions validate access keys.</p>
<p>An unauthenticated attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could invoke an HTTP Function without proper authorization.</p>
<p>This security update addresses the vulnerability by correctly validating access keys used to access HTTP Functions.</p>
Published: 2020-10-16
Score: 5.3 Medium
EPSS: 2.4% Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2020-8862 <p>An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in the way Azure Functions validate access keys.</p> <p>An unauthenticated attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could invoke an HTTP Function without proper authorization.</p> <p>This security update addresses the vulnerability by correctly validating access keys used to access HTTP Functions.</p>
History

Mon, 23 Feb 2026 18:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Description <p>An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in the way Azure Functions validate access keys.</p> <p>An unauthenticated attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could invoke an HTTP Function without proper authorization.</p> <p>This security update addresses the vulnerability by correctly validating access keys used to access HTTP Functions.</p> <p>An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in the way Azure Functions validate access keys.</p> <p>An unauthenticated attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could invoke an HTTP Function without proper authorization.</p> <p>This security update addresses the vulnerability by correctly validating access keys used to access HTTP Functions.</p>

Wed, 16 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

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Metrics epss

{'score': 0.0132}

epss

{'score': 0.02847}


Subscriptions

Microsoft Azure Functions
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: microsoft

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-04T13:45:34.161Z

Reserved: 2020-08-04T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2020-16904

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2020-10-16T23:15:13.960

Modified: 2026-02-23T18:21:20.220

Link: CVE-2020-16904

cve-icon Redhat

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cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses