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CVE-2020-16969

<p>An information disclosure vulnerability exists in how Microsoft Exchange validates tokens when handling certain messages. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could use this to gain further information from a user.</p> <p>To exploit the vulnerability, an attacker could include specially crafted OWA messages that could be loaded, without warning or filtering, from the attacker-controlled URL. This callback vector provides an information disclosure tactic used in web beacons and other types of tracking systems.</p> <p>The security update corrects the way that Exchange handles these token validations.</p>

  • Published: Oct 17, 2020
  • Updated: May 4, 2025
  • CVE: CVE-2020-16969
  • Severity: Low
  • Exploit:

CVSS v2:

  • Severity: Low
  • Score: 4.3
  • AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

No CWE or OWASP classifications available.

Software From Fixed in
microsoft / exchange_server 2013-cumulative_update_23 2013-cumulative_update_23.x
microsoft / exchange_server 2019-cumulative_update_6 2019-cumulative_update_6.x
microsoft / exchange_server 2016-cumulative_update_17 2016-cumulative_update_17.x
microsoft / exchange_server 2019-cumulative_update_7 2019-cumulative_update_7.x
microsoft / exchange_server 2016-cumulative_update_18 2016-cumulative_update_18.x