CVE-2017-8559High

Microsoft Exchange Server Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Published
July 11, 2017
Last Modified
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🔗 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 16
  • Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 Service Pack 1
  • Microsoft Exchange Server 2016 Cumulative Update 5

✅ Remediation

KB4018588 (Security Update)

🔗 References (4)