CVE-2020-16969

Microsoft Exchange Information Disclosure Vulnerability

High · published October 16, 2020

CVSS v3.1
7.1
EPSS
3%
Percentile
86.0
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

<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>

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.1 · HIGH
Vector
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
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.02730 · 86.0th percentile
Published
2020-10-16T22:18Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 16 OCT 22:18Z
    Microsoft Exchange Information Disclosure Vulnerability
    cvelistv5