CVE-2022-24518
Published: 09 March 2022
Summary
CVE-2022-24518 is a medium-severity an unspecified weakness vulnerability in Microsoft Azure Site Recovery. Its CVSS base score is 6.5 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked in the top 6.8% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
Deeper analysis
CVE-2022-24518 is an elevation of privilege vulnerability affecting Azure Site Recovery. The flaw carries a CVSS 3.1 base score of 6.5 with the vector AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H, indicating a network-accessible issue that requires high privileges but otherwise low attack complexity.
An attacker already holding high-privileged credentials on the affected Azure Site Recovery instance can exploit the weakness to obtain unauthorized access to sensitive data and to disrupt service availability. The vulnerability does not require user interaction and can be triggered remotely.
Microsoft has published an advisory for CVE-2022-24518 at the MSRC update guide that addresses the issue. The associated EPSS score has remained flat at a peak of 0.0989 with no material increase after disclosure.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2022-29398
Vulnerability details
Azure Site Recovery Elevation of Privilege 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.