Summary
Impact: Remote Code Execution. Microsoft rating: Critical. Not known to be exploited — Exploitation Less Likely. Customer action: Required.
Details
According to the CVSS metric, successful exploitation of this vulnerability could lead to total loss of confidentiality (C:H), integrity (I:H), and availability (A:H). What does that mean for this vulnerability?
An attacker who successfully exploits this vulnerability could perform a remote attack that could enable access to the victim's information and the ability to alter information. Successful exploitation could also potentially cause downtime for the targeted environment.
According to the CVSS metric, privileges required is low (PR:L). What does that mean for this vulnerability?
The attacker must be authenticated to the target site as at least a Site Member.
How could an attacker exploit this vulnerability?
An attacker could exploit the vulnerability by leveraging vulnerable APIs through a deserialization of unsafe data input vulnerability. Exploitation of this vulnerability requires that a user access a susceptible API on an affected version of SharePoint with specially-formatted input, resulting in possible remote code execution on the SharePoint Server.
Security updates
16.0.5404.1000 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5002425
16.0.10400.20008 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5002423
16.0.16130.20642 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5002424
Vulnerabilities 1
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High 8.8
Microsoft SharePoint Server Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Microsoft SharePoint Server Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
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References
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CVE-2023-33160 Microsoft SharePoint Server Remote Code Execution Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2023-33160
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Microsoft Exploitability Index
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/msrc/exploitability-index?rtc=1
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Microsoft Support Lifecycle
https://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle
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Common Vulnerability Scoring System
https://www.first.org/cvss