CVE-2018-8252 describes an elevation of privilege vulnerability in Microsoft SharePoint Server and SharePoint Foundation. This flaw allows an attacker to gain elevated privileges if a specially crafted web request is not properly sanitized. With a CVSS score of 5.4 (Medium), exploitation requires low privileges and user interaction, potentially leading to limited confidentiality and integrity impacts. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or KEV listing, though it has received some community and media attention.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
2013CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:sharepoint_foundation:2013:sp1:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2016CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:sharepoint_server:2016:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
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