CVE-2018-8581 (GCVE-0-2018-8581)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-11-14 01:00 – Updated: 2025-10-21 23:45- Elevation of Privilege
- CWE-noinfo Not enough information
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|---|---|
| http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1042141 | vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK |
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| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Microsoft | Microsoft Exchange Server |
Affected:
2010
Affected: 2013 Affected: 2016 Affected: 2019 |
guessed |
CISA
Known Exploited Vulnerability - GCVE BCP-07 Compliant
Exploited: Yes
Timestamps
Scope
Evidence
Type: Vendor Report
Signal: Successful Exploitation
Confidence: 80%
Source: cisa-kev
Details
| Cwes | |
|---|---|
| Feed | CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog |
| Product | Exchange Server |
| Due Date | 2022-03-17 |
| Date Added | 2022-03-03 |
| Vendorproject | Microsoft |
| Vulnerabilityname | Microsoft Exchange Server Privilege Escalation Vulnerability |
| Knownransomwarecampaignuse | Known |
References
Previdian
Known Exploited Vulnerability - GCVE BCP-07 Compliant
Exploited: Yes
Timestamps
Scope
Evidence
Type: Public Report
Signal: Confirmed Compromise
Confidence: 70%
Source: kevintel
Details
| Feed | KEVIntel (kevintel.com) |
|---|---|
| Title | An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in Microsoft Exchange Server, aka "Microsoft Exchange Server Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability."... |
| Vendor | Microsoft |
| Product | Microsoft Exchange Server |
| Added Date | 2022-03-03T00:00:00.000Z |
| Cvss Score | 7.4 |
| Epss Score | None |
| Cvss Severity | HIGH |
| Epss Percentile | None |
| Used In Malware | yes |
| Ahead Of Cisa Kev | None |
| Not Yet In Cisa Kev | False |
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- Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
- Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
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Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.