CVE detail

CVE-2020-16969 — CVE-2020-16969

Published 2020-10-16 · Modified 2026-06-17 · Vendor microsoft · Product exchange_server · Source nvd
HIGH
severity
CVSS-derived band
7.1
CVSS v3
0–10 scale
0.0273
EPSS probability
exploitation probability, 30d
85.0%
EPSS percentile
percentile vs all CVEs
NOT LISTED
CISA KEV
known exploited catalog

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>

Remediation

No vendor-published fix data in our corpus for this CVE. Check the references below or the vendor's PSIRT / security advisories page.

References

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