HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2014-2816

Sharepoint Foundation vulnerability

CVSS
9.3
EPSS
16.2%
EPSS pct
97th
Exploited
No known
Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013 Gold and SP1 and SharePoint Foundation 2013 Gold and SP1 allow remote authenticated users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse app that executes a custom action in the context of the SharePoint extensibility model, aka "SharePoint Page Content Vulnerability."
Affected vendor
Microsoft
Affected product
Sharepoint Foundation
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-264 — Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls
Published
2014-08-12

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, medium attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to complete impact to confidentiality, complete impact to integrity, complete impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 16.2% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 97% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2014-2816

  • Confirm whether Microsoft Sharepoint Foundation is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2014-2816.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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