HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2018-0947

Sharepoint Enterprise Server vulnerability

CVSS
8.8
EPSS
4.6%
EPSS pct
91th
Exploited
No known
Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2013 SP1 and Microsoft SharePoint Enterprise Server 2016 allow an elevation of privilege vulnerability to due how specially crafted web requests are sanitized, aka "Microsoft SharePoint Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability". This CVE is unique from CVE-2018-0909, CVE-2018-0910. CVE-2018-0911, CVE-2018-0912, CVE-2018-0913 CVE-2018-0914, CVE-2018-0915, CVE-2018-0916, CVE-2018-0917, CVE-2018-0921, CVE-2018-0923 and CVE-2018-0944.
Affected vendor
Microsoft
Affected product
Sharepoint Enterprise Server
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-79 — Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Published
2018-03-14

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring low privileges, no user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to high impact to confidentiality, high impact to integrity, high impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 4.6% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 91% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2018-0947

  • Confirm whether Microsoft Sharepoint Enterprise Server is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2018-0947.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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