Security Advisory

CVE-2020-16969

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2020-10-16 22:18:07
Last updated 2024-08-04 13:45:34
Assigner microsoft
State PUBLISHED

Description

<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>