CVE-2018-8159High

Microsoft Exchange Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Published
May 8, 2018
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 specific malicious script. The user would have to apply a highlight to the script for it to be activated. The security update addresses the vulnerability by correcting how Microsoft Exchange validates web requests.

🎯 Affected products4

  • Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 Cumulative Update 19
  • Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 Cumulative Update 20
  • Microsoft Exchange Server 2016 Cumulative Update 8
  • Microsoft Exchange Server 2016 Cumulative Update 9

✅ Remediation

KB4092041 (Security Update)

🔗 References (5)