CVE-2022-24520: Azure Site Recovery Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Overview

Severity
High (CVSS 7.2)
CVSS Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C
Category
Remote Code Execution
Exploit Status
Not Exploited
Exploitation Likelihood
Less Likely
Patch Tuesday
2022-Mar
Released
2022-03-08
EPSS Score
7.05% (percentile: 91.5%)

FAQ

According to the CVSS metric, privileges required is high (PR:H). What does that mean for this vulnerability? Successful exploitation of this vulnerability requires an attacker to compromise admin credentials to the replication appliance, configuration server, or one of the VMs associated with the configuration server. What is Azure Site Recovery? Azure Site Recovery helps ensure business continuity by keeping business apps and workloads running during outages. It is a service but also has a few on-premise components. Please visit this link for more details: About Azure Site Recovery - Azure Site Recovery To what scenario does this vulnerability apply? This vulnerability applies to a VMWare-to-Azure scenario. Please visit this link for more details: VMware VM disaster recovery architecture in Azure Site Recovery - Classic - Azure Site Recovery. What can I do to protect myself from this vulnerability? You can follow the steps here (Update rollup 60 for Azure Site Recovery -K5011122) to update to version 9.47.

Affected Products (1)

Azure

  • Azure Site Recovery VMWare to Azure

Security Updates (1)

Acknowledgments

William Soderberg with <a href="https://www.f-secure.com/">F-Secure</a>

Revision History

  • 2022-03-08: Information published.