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CVE-2018-8488
An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when Microsoft SharePoint Server does not properly sanitize a specially crafted web request…
Medium5.4EPSS 2.3%
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- microsoft
Description
An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when Microsoft SharePoint Server does not properly sanitize a specially crafted web request to an affected SharePoint server, aka "Microsoft SharePoint Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability." This affects Microsoft SharePoint. This CVE ID is unique from CVE-2018-8480, CVE-2018-8498, CVE-2018-8518.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | Medium5.4 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.3% · top 17% 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: Medium 5.4.
Weakness
- Elevation of Privilege
- CWE-79 (opens in a new tab)
Affected products
Microsoft · Microsoft SharePoint
- affected Enterprise Server 2013 Service Pack 1
- affected Enterprise Server 2016
References (3)
- https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2018-8488 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 105494 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 1041835 (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 .