CVE-2020-1595

Microsoft SharePoint Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

State
Published
Severity
9.9 Critical
Published
Sep 11, 2020
Updated
Nov 18, 2024
Reserved
Nov 4, 2019

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Description

<p>A remote code execution vulnerability exists in Microsoft SharePoint where APIs aren't properly protected from unsafe data input. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could run arbitrary code in the context of the SharePoint application pool and the SharePoint server farm account.</p> <p>Exploitation of this vulnerability requires that a user access a susceptible API on an affected version of SharePoint with specially-formatted input.</p> <p>The security update addresses the vulnerability by correcting how SharePoint handles deserialization of untrusted data.</p>

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.19.9 CriticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:P/RL:O/RC:Cmicrosoft

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
Microsoft SharePoint Enterprise Server 2016Microsoft
  • 16.0.0 to before publicationAffected
Microsoft SharePoint Enterprise Server 2013 Service Pack 1Microsoft
  • 15.0.0 to before publicationAffected
Microsoft SharePoint Server 2019Microsoft
  • 16.0.0 to before publicationAffected
Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2013 Service Pack 1Microsoft
  • 15.0.0 to before publicationAffected

References

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