CVE intelligence and bounded remediation
CVE-2021-1730 — Microsoft Exchange Server security vulnerability
<p>A spoofing vulnerability exists in Microsoft Exchange Server which could result in an attack that would allow a malicious actor to impersonate the user.</p> <p>This update addresses this vulnerability.</p> <p>To prevent these types of attacks, Microsoft recommends customers to download inline images from different DNSdomains than the rest of OWA. Please see further instructions in the FAQ to put in place this mitigations.</p>
- Severity
- Medium
- CVSS
- 5.8 (2.0)
- Published
- 2021-02-25
- CISA KEV
- Not currently listed
- Ecosystem
- windows/system
Affected products
- microsoft / exchange_server / 2016
- microsoft / exchange_server / 2019
Matched remediation archetype
General vulnerability remediation
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Check exposure
- Confirm the affected component, deployment paths, reachable interfaces, and enabled features from inventories and configuration, without probing production destructively.
- Compare the advisory's affected conditions with the repository lockfiles, build manifests, artifacts, and runtime inventory.
- Identify data sensitivity, trust boundaries, and privilege level for every confirmed affected deployment.
Remediate safely
- Apply a vendor-supported fix or remove the affected component or feature; record the selected change and its source in the repository.
- Update direct and transitive dependency locks, generated artifacts, deployment manifests, and asset inventories together.
- Add a regression test for the documented unsafe condition using inert inputs and preserve rollback instructions.
Authoritative sources
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