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Vulnerability Change Records for CVE-2020-16969

Change History

CVE Modified by Microsoft Corporation 12/31/2023 3:15:59 PM

Action Type Old Value New Value
Added CVSS V3.1

								
							
							
						
Microsoft Corporation AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L
Changed Description
An information disclosure vulnerability exists in how Microsoft Exchange validates tokens when handling certain messages, aka 'Microsoft Exchange Information Disclosure Vulnerability'.
<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>