CVE-2022-24471
Published: 09 March 2022
Summary
CVE-2022-24471 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
CVE-2022-24471 is a remote code execution vulnerability affecting Azure Site Recovery. It carries a CVSS 3.1 base score of 7.2 with the vector string AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H, indicating that successful exploitation can fully compromise confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the affected service.
An attacker with high-privileged network access and no user interaction required can exploit the flaw to execute arbitrary code on the target Azure Site Recovery instance. The attack originates over the network and does not depend on any special user actions beyond the attacker already possessing administrative credentials.
Microsoft has published mitigation guidance for this issue in its security update guide at https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2022-24471. The EPSS score for the CVE remains flat at 0.0705 with no material increase after disclosure.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2022-29352
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.