CVE-2022-33659
Published: 12 July 2022
Summary
CVE-2022-33659 is a medium-severity an unspecified weakness vulnerability in Microsoft Azure Site Recovery Vmware To Azure. Its CVSS base score is 4.9 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked in the top 8.6% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
Deeper analysis
CVE-2022-33659 is an elevation of privilege vulnerability affecting Azure Site Recovery. It carries a CVSS 3.1 base score of 4.9 reflecting a network attack vector, low attack complexity, and a requirement for high privileges, resulting in high impact to confidentiality with no impact to integrity or availability.
An authenticated attacker with high privileges can exploit the flaw over the network to obtain unauthorized access to confidential information. The vulnerability does not permit changes to data or service availability and requires no user interaction.
Microsoft has published remediation guidance for the issue in its security update guide. The EPSS score has remained flat at a peak of 0.0665 with no material increase after disclosure.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2022-36702
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.