CVE-2017-8551
medium
CVSS v3
6.1
CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
6.1
Description
An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when Microsoft SharePoint software fails to properly sanitize a specially crafted requests, aka "Microsoft SharePoint XSS vulnerability".
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
71%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| microsoft | project_server | 2013 | |
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98913
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038663
- https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2017-8551
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98913
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038663
- https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2017-8551
CWEs
CWE-79
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.