---
id: 4406
title: "A gentle introduction to Microsoft OMI and how to crash it"
source_domain: blog.quarkslab.com
source_url: "https://blog.quarkslab.com/a-gentle-introduction-to-microsoft-omi-and-how-to-crash-it.html"
published_at: "2023-03-30T22:00:00Z"
tags: ["cloud", "fuzzing", "microsoft", "vulnerability", "azure", "omi"]
phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/4406"
lang: en
---

# A gentle introduction to Microsoft OMI and how to crash it

## Summary

A gentle introduction to Microsoft OMI, the WBEM/CIM management stack widely used under Azure, plus two vulnerabilities the Quarkslab cloud team found by fuzzing its WSMan/XML interface.

## Intelligence Metadata

- **Sources:** blog.quarkslab.com
- **Published:** 2023-03-30T22:00:00Z
- **Original:** https://blog.quarkslab.com/a-gentle-introduction-to-microsoft-omi-and-how-to-crash-it.html
- **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/4406