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Microsoft CVE-2019-1136: Microsoft Exchange Server Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

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Microsoft CVE-2019-1136: Microsoft Exchange Server Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
07/09/2019
Created
07/10/2019
Added
07/09/2019
Modified
07/22/2019

Description

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in Microsoft Exchange Server. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain the same rights as any other user of the Exchange server. This could allow the attacker to perform activities such as accessing the mailboxes of other users. Exploitation of this vulnerability requires Exchange Web Services (EWS) to be enabled and in use in an affected environment. To exploit the vulnerability, an attacker would need to execute a man-in-the-middle attack to forward an authentication request to a Microsoft Exchange Server, thereby allowing impersonation of another Exchange user. To address this vulnerability, Microsoft has changed the way EWS handles NTLM tokens.

Solution(s)

  • msft-kb4509409-508db76e-9534-4400-a3fb-b51e27df7374
  • msft-kb4509410-59d60b6f-3e17-410e-8dee-f0d8b23420e7

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