CVE-2020-1295: Microsoft SharePoint Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Overview

Severity
N/A
Category
Elevation of Privilege
Exploit Status
Not Exploited
Exploitation Likelihood
Less Likely
Patch Tuesday
2020-Jun
Released
2020-06-09
EPSS Score
12.82% (percentile: 94.0%)

Description

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in Microsoft SharePoint. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could attempt to impersonate another user of the SharePoint server. To exploit this vulnerability, an authenticated attacker would send a specially crafted request to an affected server, thereby allowing the impersonation of another SharePoint user. The security update addresses the vulnerability by correcting how Microsoft SharePoint sanitizes user input.

FAQ

Is the Preview Pane an attack vector for this vulnerability? No, the Preview Pane is not an attack vector.

Affected Products (3)

Microsoft Office

  • Microsoft SharePoint Enterprise Server 2016
  • Microsoft SharePoint Enterprise Server 2013 Service Pack 1
  • Microsoft SharePoint Server 2019

Security Updates (3)

Revision History

  • 2020-06-09: Information published.