CVE-2022-24470
Published: 09 March 2022
Summary
CVE-2022-24470 is a high-severity an unspecified weakness vulnerability in Microsoft Azure Site Recovery. Its CVSS base score is 7.2 (High).
Operationally, ranked in the top 8.3% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
Deeper analysis
Azure Site Recovery contains a remote code execution vulnerability tracked as CVE-2022-24470. The issue received a CVSS 3.1 score of 7.2 with an attack vector of network, low complexity, and high privileges required, resulting in high impact to confidentiality, integrity, and availability on the affected Azure component.
An authenticated attacker possessing high privileges can send specially crafted requests over the network to execute arbitrary code on the target system, achieving full control over the Azure Site Recovery instance without user interaction.
Microsoft published an advisory for this vulnerability at https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2022-24470 that includes mitigation guidance and patch information for affected deployments.
EPSS for the CVE has remained flat at 0.0705 with no material rise after disclosure.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2022-29351
Vulnerability details
Azure Site Recovery Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.