CVE intelligence and bounded remediation
CVE-2020-16941 — Microsoft Sharepoint Enterprise Server security vulnerability
<p>An information disclosure vulnerability exists when Microsoft SharePoint Server improperly discloses its folder structure when rendering specific web pages. An attacker who took advantage of this information disclosure could view the folder path of scripts loaded on the page.</p> <p>To take advantage of the vulnerability, an attacker would require access to the specific SharePoint page affected by this vulnerability.</p> <p>The security update addresses the vulnerability by correcting how scripts are referenced on some SharePoint pages.</p>
- Severity
- Medium
- CVSS
- 5.5 (3.1)
- Published
- 2020-10-16
- CISA KEV
- Not currently listed
- Ecosystem
- windows/system
Affected products
- microsoft / sharepoint_enterprise_server / 2016
- microsoft / sharepoint_foundation / 2010
- microsoft / sharepoint_foundation / 2013
- microsoft / sharepoint_server / 2019
Matched remediation archetype
Information disclosure and sensitive data exposure
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Check exposure
- Trace sensitive data through responses, errors, logs, metrics, traces, caches, exports, files, backups, and client bundles.
- Identify affected subjects, tenants, retention windows, access controls, and downstream copies without opening unnecessary sensitive records.
- Review metadata, timing, status, length, and existence signals as well as direct content disclosure.
Remediate safely
- Minimize collection and output, apply field-level authorization and redaction at a centralized boundary, and return generic external errors.
- Remove secrets and sensitive data from logs, artifacts, URLs, caches, and client-side bundles; rotate credentials that may have been exposed.
- Update the affected component and add synthetic-data tests for response, error, observability, and export paths.
Authoritative sources
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