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CVE-2021-40484

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2021-40484 is a spoofing vulnerability affecting Microsoft SharePoint Server, including Enterprise, Foundation, and Server editions. Rated High with a CVSS score of 7.6, it requires user interaction and low privileges, allowing an attacker to achieve high confidentiality impact and low integrity impact over the network. While no public exploit code or active exploitation has been observed, and it is not listed in CISA's KEV catalog, it received some media coverage and community discussion at the time of its disclosure.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2016CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:sharepoint_enterprise_server:2016:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2013CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:sharepoint_foundation:2013:sp1:*:*:*:*:*:*
2019CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:sharepoint_server:2019:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.6HIGH

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
LOW
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
2.3
Impact Score
4.7
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.30%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
67.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0130 is in the 84th percentile among its peer group of 890 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

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

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (4)

microsoftpatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Microsoft SharePoint Enterprise Server 2016Fixed in: 16.0.5227.1000
View patch
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Microsoft SharePoint Server 2019Fixed in: 16.0.10379.20000
View patch
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2013 Service Pack 1Fixed in: 15.0.5389.1000
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

microsoft2021-Oct/CVE-2021-40484Important

Microsoft SharePoint Server Spoofing Vulnerability

Oct 12, 2021

References

portal.msrc.microsoft.com / en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2021-40484
PatchVendor Advisory