Azure Network Watcher VM Extension Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

What privileges could be gained by an attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability? An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain administrator privileges.

Is there any action I need to take to be protected from this vulnerability? If you have enabled automatic updates, you will automatically receive the update as soon as it is available. If you have not enabled automatic updates, you will need to update the product manually. Please see Update Network Watcher extension to the latest version - Azure Virtual Machines | Microsoft Learn for more information.