azureauthextension is the Azure Authenticator Extension. From 0.124.0 to 0.150.0, a server-side authentication bypass in azureauthextension allows any party who holds a single valid Azure access token for any scope the collector's configured identity can mint for to authenticate to any OpenTelemetry receiver that uses auth: azure_auth. The extension's Authenticate method does not validate incoming bearer tokens as JWTs. Instead, it calls its own configured credential to obtain an access token and compares the client's token to the result with string equality — and the scope for that server-side token request is taken from the client-supplied Host header. As a result, a token minted for any Azure resource the service principal has ever been issued a token for (ARM, Graph, Key Vault, Storage, etc.) will authenticate to the collector if the attacker picks a matching Host. Tokens are replayable for the full issued lifetime (commonly several hours for managed identity tokens).
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| Description | azureauthextension is the Azure Authenticator Extension. From 0.124.0 to 0.150.0, a server-side authentication bypass in azureauthextension allows any party who holds a single valid Azure access token for any scope the collector's configured identity can mint for to authenticate to any OpenTelemetry receiver that uses auth: azure_auth. The extension's Authenticate method does not validate incoming bearer tokens as JWTs. Instead, it calls its own configured credential to obtain an access token and compares the client's token to the result with string equality — and the scope for that server-side token request is taken from the client-supplied Host header. As a result, a token minted for any Azure resource the service principal has ever been issued a token for (ARM, Graph, Key Vault, Storage, etc.) will authenticate to the collector if the attacker picks a matching Host. Tokens are replayable for the full issued lifetime (commonly several hours for managed identity tokens). | |
| Title | azureauthextension Authenticate method does not validate bearer tokens, allowing auth bypass via replay | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-208 CWE-287 CWE-290 CWE-294 CWE-347 |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: GitHub_M
Published:
Updated: 2026-05-14T12:52:53.551Z
Reserved: 2026-04-29T00:31:15.725Z
Link: CVE-2026-42602
Updated: 2026-05-14T12:51:09.527Z
Status : Awaiting Analysis
Published: 2026-05-13T21:16:47.210
Modified: 2026-05-14T18:17:11.253
Link: CVE-2026-42602
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OpenCVE Enrichment
Updated: 2026-05-13T21:45:05Z