VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2020-1595

CVSS score9.9 CRITICAL
EPSS probability1.98%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2020-09-11
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Description

<p>A remote code execution vulnerability exists in Microsoft SharePoint where APIs aren't properly protected from unsafe data input. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could run arbitrary code in the context of the SharePoint application pool and the SharePoint server farm account.</p> <p>Exploitation of this vulnerability requires that a user access a susceptible API on an affected version of SharePoint with specially-formatted input.</p> <p>The security update addresses the vulnerability by correcting how SharePoint handles deserialization of untrusted data.</p>

Weakness classification

  • nvd@nist.gov: CWE-494

Primary references