Microsoft Exchange Server Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Description
An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when Microsoft Exchange Outlook Web Access (OWA) fails to properly handle web requests. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could perform script/content injection attacks and attempt to trick the user into disclosing sensitive information. To exploit the vulnerability, an attacker could send a specially crafted email message containing a malicious link to a user. Alternatively, an attacker could use a chat client to social engineer a user into clicking the malicious link. The security update addresses the vulnerability by correcting how Microsoft Exchange validates web requests. Note: In order to exploit this vulnerability, a user must click a maliciously crafted link from an attacker.
🎯 Affected products3
- Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 Cumulative Update 14
- Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 Service Pack 1
- Microsoft Exchange Server 2016 Cumulative Update 3
✅ Remediation
KB4012178 (Security Update)
🔗 References (5)
- advisoryhttps://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2017-0110
- patchhttps://www.microsoft.com/download/details.aspx?familyid=1dc2c189-2d5d-4f86-9049-aa403af9c143
- referencehttps://support.microsoft.com/help/4012178
- patchhttps://www.microsoft.com/download/details.aspx?familyid=7d376a06-0941-442b-a57e-37c821398c5c
- patchhttps://www.microsoft.com/download/details.aspx?familyid=24370e12-50a1-4477-a664-11777eb93520