CVE-2020-1523 (GCVE-0-2020-1523)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-09-11 17:09 – Updated: 2024-11-18 16:17
VLAI
Title
Microsoft SharePoint Server Tampering Vulnerability
Summary
<p>A tampering vulnerability exists when Microsoft SharePoint Server fails to properly handle profile data. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could modify a targeted user's profile data.</p> <p>To exploit the vulnerability, an attacker would need to be authenticated on an affected SharePoint Server. The attacker would then need to send a specially modified request to the server, targeting a specific user.</p> <p>The security update addresses the vulnerability by modifying how Microsoft SharePoint Server handles profile data.</p>
Severity
8.9 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:L/E:P/RL:O/RC:C
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-01-10 18:50 UTC
CWE
  • Tampering
Assigner
microsoft CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard B 82/100 over 2679 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Microsoft Microsoft SharePoint Server 2019 Affected: 16.0.0 , < publication (custom)
    cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:sharepoint_server:2019:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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Date Public
2020-09-08 07:00
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