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 16
- Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 Service Pack 1
- Microsoft Exchange Server 2016 Cumulative Update 5
✅ Remediation
KB4018588 (Security Update)
🔗 References (4)
- advisoryhttps://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2017-8560
- patchhttps://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=521e82c1-5934-4420-97c6-d1a047e4ee47
- patchhttps://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=1cdd77a9-61cd-4174-b96a-cc3dd169e3dd
- patchhttps://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=7167b81d-a351-427f-80dc-b864a4fb0576