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OMI Vulnerability Exploitation

Description

Following the September 14th, 2021 release of three Elevation of Privilege (EoP) vulnerabilities (CVE-2021-38645, CVE-2021-38649, CVE-2021-38648) and one unauthenticated Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability (CVE-2021-38647) in the Open Management Infrastructure (OMI) Framework. This detection validates that any OMS-agent that is reporting to the Microsoft Sentinel workspace is updated with the patch. The detection will go over the heartbeats received from all agents over the last day and will create alert for those agents who are not updated.
Rule type
Scheduled
Version
1.1.5
Query frequency
1d
Query period
1d
Trigger
gt 0

Declared MITRE coverage

KQL query

Original query, unchanged.

let OMIVulnerabilityPatchVersion = "OMIVulnerabilityPatchVersion:1.13.40-0";
Heartbeat
| where Category == "Direct Agent"
| summarize arg_max(TimeGenerated,*) by Computer
| parse strcat("Version:" , Version) with * "Version:" Major:long "."
Minor:long "." Patch:long "-" *
| parse OMIVulnerabilityPatchVersion with * "OMIVulnerabilityPatchVersion:"
OMIVersionMajor:long "." OMIVersionMinor:long "." OMIVersionPatch:long "-" *
| where Major <OMIVersionMajor or (Major==OMIVersionMajor and Minor
<OMIVersionMinor) or (Major==OMIVersionMajor and Minor==OMIVersionMinor and
Patch<OMIVersionPatch) 
| project Version, Major,Minor,Patch,
Computer,ComputerIP,OSType,OSName,ResourceId

Declared entities

HostAzureResource

Source provenance

GitHub

Displayed values come from files in Azure/Azure-Sentinel. They describe the published template, not your workspace configuration.

Source identifier
3cc5ccd8-b416-4141-bb2d-4eba370e37a5
Additional source files 1Detections/Heartbeat/OMI_vulnerability_detection.yamlsource ↗
GSTEP / CATALOG TRACKING

Added to catalog : 16 Sept 2026 · 05:49 UTC
Last change observed : 16 Sept 2026 · 05:49 UTC

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