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CVE Number Vulnerability Product Severity Date
CVE-2017-8559 Microsoft Exchange Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability Microsoft Exchange Critical 12-07-2017

Technical Information

Brief overview of the risk:
An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when Microsoft Exchange Outlook Web Access (OWA) fails to properly handle web requests. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could perform script/content injection attacks and attempt to trick the user into disclosing sensitive information.

Detailed Information on the risk:

To exploit the vulnerability, an attacker could send a specially crafted email message containing a malicious link to a user. Alternatively, an attacker could use a chat client to social engineer a user into clicking the malicious link.

Further information on this exploit is available at : CVE-2017-8559

Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 Cumulative Update 16
Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 SP1
Microsoft Exchange Server 2016 Cumulative Update 5

Affected Software

Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 Cumulative Update 16
Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 SP1
Microsoft Exchange Server 2016 Cumulative Update 5