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Plain-English summary
CVE-2022-33662 is a Microsoft Azure Site Recovery elevation-of-privilege issue affecting Azure Site Recovery VMWare to Azure 9.0. The published score is medium, but successful exploitation could affect integrity and availability. It requires high privileges, which lowers broad opportunistic risk.
Executive priority
Treat this as a moderate priority unless the affected ASR deployment supports critical recovery operations or has many privileged users. Remediate through Microsoft guidance and verify administrative access controls.
Technical view
The CVSS 3.1 vector is AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H. An attacker would need high privileges and network access, with no user interaction required. The source bundle identifies only Azure Site Recovery VMWare to Azure version 9.0 as affected.
Likely exposure
Exposure appears limited to organizations using Microsoft Azure Site Recovery VMWare to Azure 9.0. Environments not using that product path are not identified as affected in the provided sources.
Exploitation context
The CVE is not listed as CISA KEV in the provided bundle. The CVSS exploit maturity is proof-of-concept, but no cited source here confirms active exploitation or public weaponization.
Researcher notes
The public bundle is sparse: no CWE, exploit narrative, or detailed remediation steps are provided. Analysis should stay anchored to MSRC and CVE metadata, especially the high-privilege requirement and integrity/availability impact.
Mitigation direction
- Review the Microsoft MSRC advisory for current vendor remediation guidance.
- Apply Microsoft-provided updates or service guidance for affected Azure Site Recovery deployments.
- Prioritize remediation where ASR administrators have broad production infrastructure privileges.
- Restrict ASR administrative access to trusted, necessary operators only.
- Monitor Microsoft guidance for any change in exploitation or remediation status.
Validation and detection
- Inventory Azure Site Recovery VMWare to Azure deployments and versions.
- Confirm whether any deployment matches affected version 9.0.
- Compare remediation status against the MSRC CVE-2022-33662 advisory.
- Review privileged ASR roles for unnecessary or stale access.
- Document compensating controls if remediation cannot be completed immediately.
Generated from the cited source records. This long-tail analysis has not been individually reviewed by a named human.
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Open ATT&CK lookup- Severity
- Medium
- CVSS
- 6.5 (3.1)
- Known Exploited
- No
- Published
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H/E:P/RL:O/RC:C
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CVSS vector scores
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CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H/E:P/RL:O/RC:C1.25.2Primary CVE scoreVulnerability scoring details
Base CVSS 3.1 score
6.5MediumVector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H/E:P/RL:O/RC:C
Source materials
- CVE List V5 sourceCVE List V5
- Azure Site Recovery Elevation of Privilege VulnerabilityCVE reference · vendor-advisory
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CWE details
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