CVE-2018-8581 on CISA KEV

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in Microsoft Exchange Server, aka "Microsoft Exchange Server Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability." This affects Microsoft Exchange Server.

01What CISA says about this vulnerability

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in Microsoft Exchange Server, aka "Microsoft Exchange Server Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability." This affects Microsoft Exchange Server.

02Required action — verbatim from CISA

Apply updates per vendor instructions.

03Notes & references

• www.securitytracker.com — http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1042141
• www.securityfocus.com — http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105837
• portal.msrc.microsoft.com — https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2018-8581

04SARA's analyst layer — why this matters

This vulnerability is currently on the CISA KEV list, which CISA only adds CVEs to when there is reliable evidence of active exploitation in the wild. For federal civilian agencies, BOD 22-01 requires remediation by the due date above. For everyone else, KEV is the strongest "patch immediately" signal you can get from public threat intel.

05Affected products (summary)

Vendor	Product	Versions
Microsoft	Microsoft Exchange Server	2010, 2013, 2016, 2019

06Detection

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