CVE-2020-1460

Microsoft SharePoint Server Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

At a glance

Severity
HIGH 8.6
EPSS
EPSS 3.70 % · percentile 90 (2026-10-27)
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
microsoft
NVD status
Modified

Description

<p>A remote code execution vulnerability exists in Microsoft SharePoint Server when it fails to properly identify and filter unsafe ASP.Net web controls. An authenticated attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could use a specially crafted page to perform actions in the security context of the SharePoint application pool process.</p> <p>To exploit the vulnerability, an authenticated user must create and invoke a specially crafted page on an affected version of Microsoft SharePoint Server.</p> <p>The security update addresses the vulnerability by correcting how Microsoft SharePoint Server handles processing of created content.</p>

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.6CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:L/E:P/RL:O/RC:Cmicrosoft
CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.6CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:LNVD · secure@microsoft.com (Secondary)
CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Secondary)
CVSS 2.0MEDIUM 6.5AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:PNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Microsoft · Microsoft SharePoint Enterprise Server 2016affected 16.0.0 < publication
Microsoft · Microsoft SharePoint Enterprise Server 2013 Service Pack 1affected 15.0.0 < publication
Microsoft · Microsoft SharePoint Server 2019affected 16.0.0 < publication
Microsoft · Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 Service Pack 2affected 13.0.0 < publication
Microsoft · Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2013 Service Pack 1affected 15.0.0 < publication

References

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD