CVE-2022-42136 (GCVE-0-2022-42136)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-01-13 00:00 – Updated: 2025-04-07 18:57
VLAI?
Summary
Authenticated mail users, under specific circumstances, could add files with unsanitized content in public folders where the IIS user had permission to access. That action, could lead an attacker to store arbitrary code on that files and execute RCE commands.
Severity ?
8.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
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