This Microsoft Entra ID Vulnerability Could Have Been Catastrophic

As businesses around the world have shifted their digital infrastructure over the last decade from self-hosted servers to the cloud , they’ve benefitted from the standardized, built-in security features of major cloud providers like Microsoft . But with so much riding on these systems, there can be potentially disastrous consequences at a massive scale if something goes wrong. Case in point: Security researcher Dirk-jan Mollema recently stumbled upon a pair of vulnerabilities in Microsoft Azure’s identity and access management platform that could have been exploited for a potentially cataclysmic takeover of all Azure customer accounts.

Known as Entra ID, the system stores each Azure cloud customer’s user identities, sign-in access controls, applications, and subscription managemen