Microsoft Open Management Infrastructure (OMI) Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Microsoft · Open Management Infrastructure (OMI)
The flaw is a privilege escalation vulnerability in Microsoft's Open Management Infrastructure (OMI), an open-source management infrastructure component. An attacker who can reach it with an existing account and low privileges, and who needs no user interaction, can escalate their privileges, which is consistent with weak authentication being the underlying weakness.
Open Management Infrastructure Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
- Exploited
- Yes, in CISA KEV
- Reports
- 0
- Tactics
- 1/15
How an attack unfolds
Based on MITRE ATT&CKA public catalogue of the techniques attackers use, maintained by MITRE. Patchfirst uses it to describe what attackers do with a vulnerability. mappings. Select a step to see the evidence.Exploitation timelineDated milestones for a CVE: when it was disclosed, when exploit code became public, when exploitation was confirmed, and when threat reports named it.
First seen exploited 2 days after disclosure. Public exploit code (Metasploit) was available 1 day before disclosure.
- Public exploit codeMetasploit1 day before
- Disclosedday 0
- First seen exploitedVulnCheck KEV evidence+2 days
- Added to CISA KEVEU database agrees+49 days
CISA KEV listing is when exploitation was confirmed, not necessarily the first attack.
MITRE ATT&CKA public catalogue of the techniques attackers use, maintained by MITRE. Patchfirst uses it to describe what attackers do with a vulnerability. techniques
2 TechniqueOne specific attacker behaviour in MITRE ATT&CK, such as T1190 “Exploit Public-Facing Application”. IDs with a dot, like T1059.004, are sub-techniques., grouped by TacticThe attacker’s goal at a stage of an attack in MITRE ATT&CK, such as Initial Access or Persistence. Each technique belongs to one or more tactics. in kill-chain order, 2 cited passages 2Privilege EscalationTA0004
Elevation of privilege vulnerability; local privilege escalation
Open Management Infrastructure Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Gains elevated privileges via OMI flaw
Open Management Infrastructure Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Detection
0 rules for this CVE · 55 general rules for its techniquesRules for this CVE
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General rules for this CVE’s techniques
These detect the technique in general, not this specific vulnerability.
Exploitation for Privilege EscalationT106831 general rules
- Exploiting CVE-2019-1388criticalstable
- Audit CVE Eventcriticaltest
- HackTool - SysmonEOP Executioncriticaltest
- InstallerFileTakeOver LPE CVE-2021-41379 File Create Eventcriticaltest
- Possible Coin Miner CPU Priority Paramcriticaltest
- Potential CVE-2021-41379 Exploitation Attemptcriticaltest
- Potential SystemNightmare Exploitation Attemptcriticaltest
- Sudo Privilege Escalation CVE-2019-14287 - Builtincriticaltest
Abuse Elevation Control MechanismT154824 general rules
- Abused Debug Privilege by Arbitrary Parent Processeshightest
- COM Hijack via Sdclthightest
- Credential Dumping Attempt Via Svchosthightest
- Potential Privilege Escalation via Local Kerberos Relay over LDAPhightest
- Regedit as Trusted Installerhightest
- Vulnerable Netlogon Secure Channel Connection Allowedhightest
- Registry Hive File Staged Outside Standard User Profile Pathhighexperimental
- Linux Doas Conf File Creationmediumstable
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What security researchers reported
Not named in any threat report yetAlso mentioned in 50 community threat pulses (AlienVault OTX)
Weaker evidencePulses are indicator collections that anyone can publish. A mention is not confirmation of exploitation.
- Actively_Exploited_Kev | Oct 29, 202628 Oct 2026
- Actively_Exploited_Kev | Oct 28, 202627 Oct 2026
- Actively_Exploited_Kev | Oct 27, 202626 Oct 2026
- Actively_Exploited_Kev | Oct 24, 202623 Oct 2026
- Actively_Exploited_Kev | Oct 23, 202622 Oct 2026
- Actively_Exploited_Kev | Oct 22, 202621 Oct 2026
- 44 more on OTX