CVE-2025-62207 is a high severity (CVSS 8.6) elevation of privilege vulnerability in Microsoft Azure Monitor, classed as server side request forgery (CWE-918). The record lists no affected version range. Microsoft publishes the authoritative status in its Security Update Guide, so check that entry for any action on your side.
What's affected
The NVD record names one product, Microsoft Azure Monitor, and gives no version list or fixed build. The CVSS vector is network reachable, low complexity, needs no privileges and no user interaction, and the scope changes (S:C), with a high confidentiality impact and no integrity or availability impact.
Azure Monitor is a Microsoft operated cloud service. For services of that kind, the provider usually applies the fix on its side and the advisory says whether customers need to do anything. I could not load the Microsoft guide page in this review (it renders only in a browser with JavaScript), so I cannot say here whether any customer step exists. Treat the MSRC entry as the source of truth.
How to check if you're exposed
Start with the Microsoft entry for this CVE in the Security Update Guide and read the FAQ and the "Customer action" or "Mitigations" notes, if present.
Then look at how your own estate touches Azure Monitor. These are reasonable places to look:
- Agents, extensions and collectors that you deploy yourself, such as the Azure Monitor Agent on virtual machines. The advisory will say if any of them are in scope.
- Custom code or automation that calls Azure Monitor APIs on behalf of other users, and that fetches URLs it was given as input.
- Managed identities and role assignments that those workloads hold, since the scope change in the vector points to what a server side request could reach.
If you track cloud dependencies in an inventory, search it for Azure Monitor SDKs and agents so you know which projects to review.
What to do now
- Open the Microsoft Security Update Guide entry for CVE-2025-62207 and read whether any customer action is listed.
- If the entry lists an agent, extension or SDK update, apply it through your normal patch process and record the version.
- Review which managed identities and network paths your monitoring workloads can reach, and remove access that is not needed.
- In any code of your own that fetches a URL supplied by a user or another system, restrict the allowed hosts and block requests to internal and metadata addresses.
- Re-check the advisory later. Cloud service entries are sometimes updated after publication.
Why it matters
Server side request forgery means a service can be tricked into making a request on behalf of someone who should not control it. The danger is the position of the server. It often sits inside a trust boundary and can reach internal addresses, metadata endpoints and other services that an outside caller cannot. CWE-918 is the standard name for the weakness.
The "scope changed" part of the vector is what pushes this to 8.6. It means the impact lands on resources beyond the vulnerable component itself. The record does not list the KEV flag as true, and I found no statement of exploitation in the sources I could read, so there is no basis here to call it exploited in the wild.
The lesson that applies to your own code is the same one. Treat any URL a user can influence as hostile, resolve it, check where it points, and allow only the hosts you expect.
Quick check
Is CVE-2025-62207 exploited in the wild?
The record does not mark it as CISA Known Exploited, and the sources I could read do not say it is exploited. Check the Microsoft entry for the current exploitability assessment.
Do I need to patch anything myself?
The record gives no fixed version. Because Azure Monitor is a cloud service, the answer depends on what Microsoft states. Read the advisory before assuming either way.
Sources
Last reviewed: 18 October 2026.
