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Microsoft SharePoint: CVE-2020-1595: Microsoft SharePoint Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Sep 11, 2020
Added
May 15, 2023
Modified
Aug 12, 2025

Description

<p>A remote code execution vulnerability exists in Microsoft SharePoint where APIs aren't properly protected from unsafe data input. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could run arbitrary code in the context of the SharePoint application pool and the SharePoint server farm account.</p>
<p>Exploitation of this vulnerability requires that a user access a susceptible API on an affected version of SharePoint with specially-formatted input.</p>
<p>The security update addresses the vulnerability by correcting how SharePoint handles deserialization of untrusted data.</p>

Solutions

microsoft-sharepoint-sharepoint_2016-kb4484506microsoft-sharepoint-sharepoint_2019-kb4484505
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