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CVE-2017-8569
Microsoft SharePoint Server allows an elevation of privilege vulnerability due to the way that it sanitizes a specially crafted web…
High8.8EPSS 5.4%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- microsoft
Description
Microsoft SharePoint Server allows an elevation of privilege vulnerability due to the way that it sanitizes a specially crafted web request to an affected SharePoint server, aka "SharePoint Server XSS Vulnerability".
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | High8.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 5.4% · top 7.3% of all CVEs (2 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.8.
Weakness
- Elevation of Privilege
- CWE-79 (opens in a new tab)
Affected products
Microsoft Corporation · Microsoft SharePoint Enterprise Server 2016
- affected Microsoft SharePoint Enterprise Server 2016
References (3)
- https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-us/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2017-8569 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 99447 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 1038861 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_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)
Record last updated .