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#3 SecurityWeek general July 31, 2026 at 09:04 UTC

Critical Flaw Led to Azure Cosmos DB Pwnage

By Ionut Arghire

AI Summary

A critical vulnerability dubbed CosmosEscape in Azure Cosmos DB exposed the primary key for Cosmos DB accounts, granting attackers full read and write access to victim data. The flaw represents a severe cloud infrastructure risk for organizations using Microsoft's managed NoSQL service. Security teams running Cosmos DB workloads should review access logs and rotate primary keys as a precautionary measure pending full patch details.

Relevance score: 88.0/100

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