CVE-2020-16969 HIGH

CVE-2020-16969: Microsoft Exchange Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Vendor Microsoft
Product Microsoft Exchange Server 2019 Cumulative Update 6
Published October 16, 2020
Last update August 4, 2024

CVSS base score

7.1/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Confidentiality Low
Integrity Low

CVSS 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

What the vulnerability does

01Description

<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>

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

October 16, 2020 CVE published
August 4, 2024 Record updated