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CVE-2017-8551
An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when Microsoft SharePoint software fails to properly sanitize a specially crafted requests,…
Medium6.1EPSS 3.3%
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- Updated
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- microsoft
Description
An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when Microsoft SharePoint software fails to properly sanitize a specially crafted requests, aka "Microsoft SharePoint XSS vulnerability".
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | Medium6.1 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 3.3% · top 12% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.1.
Weakness
- Elevation of Privilege
- CWE-79 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-79 and its CVEs
Affected products
Microsoft Corporation · Microsoft SharePoint
- affected Microsoft Project Server 2013 Service Pack 1
References (3)
- https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2017-8551 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 1038663 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 98913 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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