CVE-2018-0908 — Microsoft Identity Manager 2016 SP1 allows an attacker to gain elevated privileg

Microsoft Identity Manager 2016 SP1 allows an attacker to gain elevated privileges when it does not properly sanitize a specially crafted attribute value being displayed to a user on an affected MIM 2016 server, aka "Microsoft Identity Manager XSS Elevation of Privilege Vuln

01What is this vulnerability?

Microsoft Identity Manager 2016 SP1 allows an attacker to gain elevated privileges when it does not properly sanitize a specially crafted attribute value being displayed to a user on an affected MIM 2016 server, aka "Microsoft Identity Manager XSS Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability."

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Microsoft Corporation	Microsoft Identity Manager	Microsoft Identity Manager 2016 SP1

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2018-02-26T22:00:00.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-09-16T22:40:36.118Z

09References

• www.securityfocus.com — http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103112
• portal.msrc.microsoft.com — https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2018-0908