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High MSRC-CVE-2022-33676 1 CVE

Azure Site Recovery Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Published Jul 12, 2022 · Updated Jul 12, 2022

Summary

Impact: Remote Code Execution. Microsoft rating: Important. Not known to be exploited — Exploitation Less Likely. Customer action: Required.

Details

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
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.

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.

How do I install the update to be protected from the CVE-2022-33675 and CVE-2022-33676 vulnerabilities?
Unlike other Azure Site Recovery CVEs, to be protected from this particular vulnerability customers must upgrade to version 9.49 of the Process Server by following the instructions here. Customers must upgrade all process server installations, such as the in-built process server, scale out process server, and scale out process server on Azure (if any). More information about managing the Process Server can be found here.

Security updates
9.49 — https://support.microsoft.com/topic/update-rollup-62-for-azure-site-recovery-e7aff36f-b6ad-4705-901c-f662c00c402b

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