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Microsoft Exchange Zero Day Exploitable Vulnerabilities

Issued: 
Thursday, 10 November, 2022
Last Revision: 
Thursday, 10 November, 2022
Vendor: 
Severity Level: 
Summary: 

There are two Zero-Day exploitable vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange, CVE-2022-41040 is an elevation of privilege vulnerability and CVE-2022-41082 is allowing Remote Code Execution (RCE) when PowerShell is accessible to the attacker. Successful exploitation may give privilege to attacker to execute commands which may allow exfiltration of data and lateral movement to internal systems. 

 

Previously reported privilege escalation vulnerability CVE-2022-41080 has been also addressed by Microsoft which is most likely to be exploited in near future.

 

 

CVE/Vulnerability

Description

CVSS 3.1 Score

Exploitable

 

 

CVE-2022-41082

Microsoft Exchange Server RCE

8.8

Yes

 

 

CVE-2022-41040

Microsoft Exchange Server Elevation of Privilege

8.8

Yes

 

 

CVE-2022-41080

Microsoft Exchange Server Elevation of Privilege

8.8

No

 

       

 

Table 1: Vulnerability details

 

 

 

Update Type

Product(s) Detail 

 

 

Security Updates

Microsoft Exchange Server 2019 Cumulative Update 12

Microsoft Exchange Server 2019 Cumulative Update 11

Microsoft Exchange Server 2016 Cumulative Update 23

Microsoft Exchange Server 2016 Cumulative Update 22

Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 Cumulative Update 23

 

     

 

Table 2: Vulnerable versions

 

Recommendation: 

We recommend all entities to update the latest version to remediate vulnerabilities in Exchange Server.