vulnerability

Microsoft SharePoint: CVE-2018-8428: Microsoft SharePoint Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N)
Published
Sep 13, 2018
Added
May 15, 2023
Modified
Oct 14, 2025

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-2018-8431.

Solution

microsoft-sharepoint-sharepoint_2016-kb4092459
Title
Rapid7 Labs

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