SB20261111108 - Weak Authentication in Azure DevOps Server
Published: November 11, 2026
Breakdown by Severity
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Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 vulnerability.
1) Weak Authentication (CVE-ID: CVE-2026-120783)
CWE-ID: CWE-1390 - Weak Authentication
CVSSv4: 6.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
The vulnerability allows a remote user to escalate privileges, disclose search data, and temporarily disrupt search functionality.
The vulnerability exists due to weak authentication in Azure DevOps Server when handling network access. A remote user can prepare the target environment and exploit weak authentication to read the Elasticsearch search corpus and modify or delete search indices, temporarily disrupting search functionality.
Tampering and deletion are limited to search indices and do not affect the underlying source data.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.