CVE-2020-16969 - CVE House
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Status published High CVE-2020-16969

Microsoft Exchange Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Vulnerability Description

<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>

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

Affected Vendor

Affected Software

Microsoft Exchange Server 2019 Cumulative Update 6, Microsoft Exchange Server 2016 Cumulative Update 17, Microsoft Exchange Server 2019 Cumulative Update 7, Microsoft Exchange Server 2016 Cumulative Update 18, Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 Cumulative Update 23
Vulnerable Versions:
15.02.0, 15.01.0, 15.00.0

Timeline

Official Publish: October 16th, 2020
Last Modified: August 4th, 2024
Added to House: July 21st, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: 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

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.