CVE intelligence and bounded remediation
CVE-2017-11876 — Microsoft Project Server security vulnerability
Microsoft Project Server and Microsoft SharePoint Enterprise Server 2016 allow an attacker to use cross-site forgery to read content that they are not authorized to read, use the victim's identity to take actions on the web application on behalf of the victim, such as change permissions and delete content, and inject malicious content in the browser of the victim, aka "Microsoft Project Server Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability".
- Severity
- High
- CVSS
- 8.8 (3.0)
- Published
- 2017-11-15
- CISA KEV
- Not currently listed
- Ecosystem
- windows/system
- Weaknesses
- CWE-352
Affected products
- microsoft / project_server / 2013
- microsoft / sharepoint_enterprise_server / 2016
Matched remediation archetype
Privilege escalation and unsafe privilege management
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Check exposure
- Map service accounts, operating-system identities, roles, capabilities, impersonation, set-user transitions, and administrative helper paths.
- Determine whether untrusted users or lower-privilege processes can reach the affected transition or modify inputs it trusts.
- Review file, socket, registry, device, job, container, and cloud-role permissions used before and after privilege changes.
Remediate safely
- Apply the supported fix and redesign privileged operations as a minimal, authenticated, allowlisted interface.
- Drop privileges before processing untrusted input, verify the drop succeeds, and remove unnecessary roles, capabilities, and write permissions.
- Validate ownership and permissions at time of use and add explicit lower-to-higher privilege boundary tests.
Authoritative sources
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