CVE-2017-8569
high
CVSS v3
8.8
CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
8.8
Description
Microsoft SharePoint Server allows an elevation of privilege vulnerability due to the way that it sanitizes a specially crafted web request to an affected SharePoint server, aka "SharePoint Server XSS Vulnerability".
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
92%
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 | sharepoint_server | 2016 | |
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99447
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038861
- https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-us/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2017-8569
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99447
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038861
- https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-us/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2017-8569
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.