CVE-2022-35802
Published: 09 August 2022
Summary
CVE-2022-35802 is a high-severity an unspecified weakness vulnerability in Microsoft Azure Site Recovery. Its CVSS base score is 8.1 (High).
Operationally, ranked in the top 6.3% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
Deeper analysis
CVE-2022-35802 is an elevation of privilege vulnerability affecting Azure Site Recovery. It carries a CVSS 3.1 base score of 8.1 with the vector AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N, indicating a remotely exploitable flaw that requires only low-privileged credentials and no user interaction.
An attacker who already possesses low-privileged network access to the affected Azure Site Recovery component can leverage the vulnerability to obtain high confidentiality and integrity impacts on the target system, effectively elevating their privileges without affecting availability.
Microsoft security advisories published at https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2022-35802 describe the official patches and mitigation steps for the issue. The associated EPSS score has remained in a moderate band, reaching a peak of 0.1358 with a current value of 0.1124.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2022-38675
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.