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Most people will read CVE-2026-24305 | Azure Entra ID Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability and treat it as “another cloud CVE Microsoft already handled.”
I read it as a live X-ray of your identity control plane.
If an attacker even briefly bends Entra ID privilege boundaries, it doesn’t just touch a single role – it touches:
- your Conditional Access logic
- your PIM elevation flows
- your break-glass identities
- your admin apps and automation identities
- and every downstream workload that quietly assumes “if Entra says it’s privileged, we trust it.”
That is why I treat CVE-2026-24305 as a governance exam, not a headline:
- Can you enumerate every path where Entra elevation translates into real business impact?
- Can you prove which identities, roles, and apps were in blast radius when this CVE landed?
- Can your SOC see privilege anomalies as first-class signals, not background noise?
- And can you hand your board a calm, evidence-backed narrative instead of “Microsoft fixed it, we’re fine”?
In this breakdown, I walk through:
- How an Entra EoP bug becomes a tenant-wide trust problem when admin consent, conditional access, and PIM are misaligned.
- What an evidence-ready Entra estate looks like when CVEs like 2026-24305 appear – from log scope to role design to app permissions.
- How to turn this CVE into a permanent upgrade of your privileged identity strategy, not a one-week fire drill.
If your identity plane is your new perimeter, then CVE-2026-24305 is not just a risk event.
It’s a quiet invitation to prove that your Azure Entra ID design is worthy of the power it holds.
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