Authenticated privilege escalation
Published Aug 9, 2022 · Updated May 29, 2025
Improper privilege management in Microsoft Azure Site Recovery 9.0 through 9.49 allows remote authenticated users to elevate privileges. Microsoft has not published the affected component or the incorrect privilege-management operation performed on untrusted input. Administrative access to the affected ASR environment is required, and successful exploitation exposes confidential information without altering it.
Summary
What happened
Improper privilege management in Microsoft Azure Site Recovery 9.0 through 9.49 allows remote authenticated users to elevate privileges. Microsoft has not published the affected component or the incorrect privilege-management operation performed on untrusted input. Administrative access to the affected ASR environment is required, and successful exploitation exposes confidential information without altering it.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2022-35774
- Published
- Aug 9, 2022
- Updated
- May 29, 2025
- Vendor
- Microsoft
- Product
- Azure Site Recovery
- Classifications
- CWE-269, T1068
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- admin
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Aug 9, 2022CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- May 29, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
Exploitability
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- Affected versionversion=9.0 <9.50
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