CVE-2025-62207
Published: 20 November 2025
Summary
CVE-2025-62207 is a high-severity SSRF (CWE-918) vulnerability in Microsoft Azure Monitor. Its CVSS base score is 8.6 (High).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked at the 29.8th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
The strongest mitigations our analysis identified are NIST 800-53 AC-4 (Information Flow Enforcement) and SI-10 (Information Input Validation).
Threat & Defense at a Glance
Threat & Defense Details
Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5)AI
Directly mitigates the SSRF vulnerability by requiring timely remediation of flaws through vendor patches as advised in Microsoft's update guide.
Prevents server-side request forgery by validating and sanitizing user inputs that could trick Azure Monitor into making unauthorized internal requests.
Enforces information flow policies to block unauthorized internal resource access resulting from SSRF-induced privilege escalation in Azure Monitor.
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
CVE enables unauthenticated remote exploitation of a public-facing Azure service (T1190) via SSRF leading directly to privilege escalation (T1068).
NVD Description
Azure Monitor Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Deeper analysisAI
CVE-2025-62207 is an Elevation of Privilege vulnerability affecting Azure Monitor, a Microsoft Azure service. Published on 2025-11-20T23:15:55.350, it carries a CVSS v3.1 base score of 8.6 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N) and is linked to CWE-918, indicating a server-side request forgery issue that enables privilege escalation.
Unauthenticated attackers can exploit this vulnerability remotely over the network with low complexity and no user interaction required. Exploitation leads to a scoped impact, achieving high confidentiality effects through privilege elevation, potentially allowing access to sensitive data without affecting integrity or availability.
Microsoft's advisory provides mitigation guidance; see the MSRC update guide at https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2025-62207 for patches and recommended actions.
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