Security readout for executives and security teams
Plain-English summary
This vulnerability can let a highly privileged attacker on an adjacent network disrupt Azure Site Recovery for VMware-to-Azure environments. The business impact is availability: recovery workflows could be affected during an outage or migration scenario. The public sources rate it medium, not critical.
Executive priority
Treat as a moderate resilience risk for disaster recovery operations. Prioritize environments that depend on VMware-to-Azure recovery for business continuity, especially where privileged access or network segmentation is weak.
Technical view
CVE-2022-35776 is a denial-of-service issue in Microsoft Azure Site Recovery VMware to Azure version 9.0. The CVSS vector indicates adjacent-network access, low attack complexity, high privileges, no user interaction, changed scope, and high availability impact. The CWE is resource consumption.
Likely exposure
Exposure is likely limited to organizations using Azure Site Recovery VMware-to-Azure version 9.0. The attack prerequisites are meaningful because the CVSS vector requires adjacent network access and high privileges.
Exploitation context
The provided bundle does not show CISA KEV listing or confirmed active exploitation. CVSS exploit code maturity is marked proof-of-concept, but no source here provides exploit details or real-world exploitation evidence.
Researcher notes
Key constraints are AV:A and PR:H, which reduce broad internet exposure. The main impact is availability, with no confidentiality or integrity impact in the CVSS vector. Public evidence in the bundle is sparse beyond MSRC and CVE metadata.
Mitigation direction
- Review Microsoft MSRC guidance for CVE-2022-35776.
- Apply the vendor-provided official remediation where applicable.
- Restrict privileged access to Azure Site Recovery administration paths.
- Limit adjacent network access to recovery infrastructure.
- Monitor recovery services for availability degradation.
Validation and detection
- Inventory Azure Site Recovery VMware-to-Azure deployments.
- Confirm whether version 9.0 is present.
- Compare installed builds against Microsoft MSRC remediation guidance.
- Verify privileged ASR access is limited to approved administrators.
- Review monitoring for unexplained ASR availability incidents.
Public sources used
Generated from the cited source records. This long-tail analysis has not been individually reviewed by a named human.
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- Medium
- CVSS
- 6.2 (3.1)
- Known Exploited
- No
- Published
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:P/RL:O/RC:C
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CVSS vector scores
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CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:P/RL:O/RC:C1.74Primary CVE scoreVulnerability scoring details
Base CVSS 3.1 score
6.2MediumVector: CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:P/RL:O/RC:C
Source materials
- CVE List V5 sourceCVE List V5
- Azure Site Recovery Denial of Service VulnerabilityCVE reference · vendor-advisory
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CWE details
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Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
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