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
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
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 7.1 High | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L/E:P/RL:O/RC:C | microsoft |
Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
Microsoft Exchange Server 2019 Cumulative Update 6Microsoft |
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Microsoft Exchange Server 2016 Cumulative Update 17Microsoft |
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Microsoft Exchange Server 2019 Cumulative Update 7Microsoft |
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Microsoft Exchange Server 2016 Cumulative Update 18Microsoft |
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Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 Cumulative Update 23Microsoft |
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References
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