CVE-2020-16950: Microsoft SharePoint Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Overview

Severity
Medium (CVSS 5)
CVSS Vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N/E:P/RL:O/RC:C
Category
Information Disclosure
Exploit Status
Not Exploited
Exploitation Likelihood
Less Likely
Patch Tuesday
2020-Oct
Released
2020-10-13
EPSS Score
23.06% (percentile: 95.9%)

Description

An information disclosure vulnerability exists when Microsoft SharePoint Server fails to properly handle objects in memory. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could obtain information to further compromise the user’s system. To exploit the vulnerability, an attacker would have to log on to an affected system and run a specially crafted application. The security update addresses the vulnerability by correcting how Microsoft SharePoint Server handles objects in memory.

FAQ

What type of information could be disclosed by this vulnerability? The type of information that could be disclosed if an attacker successfully exploited this vulnerability is unauthorized file system access - reading from the file system.

Affected Products (1)

Other

  • 11585

Security Updates (1)

Acknowledgments

<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/raadhaddad">Raad Firas Haddad</a>

Revision History

  • 2020-10-13: Information published.