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CVE-2021-26421

23
FAUCET Score

CVE-2021-26421 is a spoofing vulnerability affecting Microsoft Skype for Business and Lync Server. With a CVSS score of 7.1 (HIGH), it presents a significant risk, requiring user interaction but allowing an unauthenticated attacker to achieve high confidentiality impact and low integrity impact over a network. Despite its severity, there is no known active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or inclusion in CISA's KEV catalog, though it garnered some community discussion and media coverage during its disclosure.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2013CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:lync_server:2013:cumulative_update_10:*:*:*:*:*:*
2015CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:skype_for_business_server:2015:cumulative_update_11:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

6.5MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:N

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
LOW
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
1.3
Impact Score
4.7
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.41%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
69.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0141 is in the 69th percentile among its peer group of 14,848 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.1 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (3)

microsoftpatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Skype for Business Server 2015 CU11Fixed in: 2046.369
View patch
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Microsoft Lync Server 2013 CU10Fixed in: 8308.1144
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

microsoft2021-May/CVE-2021-26421Important

Skype for Business and Lync Spoofing Vulnerability

May 11, 2021

References

portal.msrc.microsoft.com / en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2021-26421
PatchVendor Advisory