CVE-2023-36035HighCVSS 8.0

Microsoft Exchange Server Spoofing Vulnerability

Published
November 14, 2023
Last Modified
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🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

According to the CVSS metrics, successful exploitation of this vulnerability could lead to major loss of confidentiality (C:H), integrity (I:H) and availability (A:H). What does that mean for this vulnerability? An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could access a user's Net-NTLMv2 hash which could be used as a basis of an NTLM Relay attack against another service to authenticate as the user.

According to the CVSS metric, privileges required is low (PR:L). Does the attacker need to be in an authenticated role on the Exchange Server? Yes, the attacker must be authenticated with LAN-access and have credentials for a valid Exchange user.

How could an attacker exploit this vulnerability? An authenticated attacker could achieve exploitation by using a PowerShell remoting session to the server.

According to the CVSS metric, the attack vector is adjacent (AV:A). What does that mean for this vulnerability? An authenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability with LAN access.

🎯 Affected products3

  • Microsoft Exchange Server 2016 Cumulative Update 23
  • Microsoft Exchange Server 2019 Cumulative Update 12
  • Microsoft Exchange Server 2019 Cumulative Update 13

✅ Remediation

KB5032147 (Security Update) — fixed build 15.01.2507.035 KB5032146 (Security Update) — fixed build 15.02.1118.040 KB5032146 (Security Update) — fixed build 15.02.1258.028

🔗 References (6)