CVE-2020-16969

Microsoft Exchange Information Disclosure Vulnerability

State
Published
Severity
7.1 High
Published
Oct 16, 2020
Updated
Aug 4, 2024
Reserved
Aug 4, 2020

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Description

<p>An information disclosure vulnerability exists in how Microsoft Exchange validates tokens when handling certain messages. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could use this to gain further information from a user.</p> <p>To exploit the vulnerability, an attacker could include specially crafted OWA messages that could be loaded, without warning or filtering, from the attacker-controlled URL. This callback vector provides an information disclosure tactic used in web beacons and other types of tracking systems.</p> <p>The security update corrects the way that Exchange handles these token validations.</p>

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.17.1 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L/E:P/RL:O/RC:Cmicrosoft

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
Microsoft Exchange Server 2019 Cumulative Update 6Microsoft
  • 15.02.0 to before publicationAffected
Microsoft Exchange Server 2016 Cumulative Update 17Microsoft
  • 15.01.0 to before publicationAffected
Microsoft Exchange Server 2019 Cumulative Update 7Microsoft
  • 15.02.0 to before publicationAffected
Microsoft Exchange Server 2016 Cumulative Update 18Microsoft
  • 15.01.0 to before publicationAffected
Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 Cumulative Update 23Microsoft
  • 15.00.0 to before publicationAffected

References

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