SB2010060801 - Multiple vulnerabilities in Microsoft SharePoint

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SB2010060801 - Multiple vulnerabilities in Microsoft SharePoint

Published: June 8, 2010 Updated: December 30, 2016

Security Bulletin ID SB2010060801
CSH Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 3
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Data manipulation

Breakdown by Severity

Medium 67% Low 33%
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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 3 vulnerabilities.


1) Denial of service (CVE-ID: CVE-2010-1264)

CWE-ID: CWE-20 - Improper input validation

CVSSv4: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:A/U:Green


The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause denial of service condition.

The vulnerability exists due to an error in Microsoft SharePoint when processing specially crafted requests to the help page. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted HTTP request and cause the application to stop responding.

Successful exploitation of the vulnerability will allow and attacker to cause the web server to become non-responsive until the associated application pool is restarted.


2) Cross-site scripting (CVE-ID: CVE-2010-1257)

CWE-ID: CWE-79 - Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

CVSSv4: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear


The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform XSS attacks.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied input data within SharePoint toStaticHTML API. A remote attacker can trick the victim into following a specially crafted link and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in victim’s browser in context of vulnerable SharePoint website.

Successful exploitation may allow an attacker to conduct phishing and drive-by-download attacks and obtain potentially sensitive information.


3) Cross-site scripting (CVE-ID: CVE-2010-0817)

CWE-ID: CWE-79 - Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

CVSSv4: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N/E:A/U:Green


The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform XSS attacks.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied input data passed to Help.aspx script. A remote attacker can trick the victim into following a specially crafted link and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in victim’s browser in context of vulnerable SharePoint website.

Successful exploitation may allow an attacker to conduct phishing and drive-by-download attacks.

Note: this vulnerability is being publicly exploited.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

References