CVE-2022-33668

FAQ

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 to update to version 9.49.

According to the CVSS metric, privileges required is high (PR:H). What privileges does an attacker require to exploit this vulnerability?

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability requires an attacker to compromise admin credentials to one of the VMs associated with the configuration server.

According to the CVSS metrics, successful exploitation of this vulnerability could lead to major loss of confidentiality (C:H) but have no effect on integrity (I:N) or on availability (A:N). What does that mean for this vulnerability?

This vulnerability could allow an attacker to disclose confidential information such as encrypted credentials but does not allow the attacker to modify any data or make the service unavailable.