Microsoft security update for CVE-2016-7251 — Microsoft SQL Server 2016 for x64-based Systems
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Microsoft's advisory
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🎯 Affected products2
- Microsoft SQL Server 2016 for x64-based Systems (CU)
- Microsoft SQL Server 2016 for x64-based Systems (GDR)
✅ Updates Microsoft lists: 2 KB articles
2 rows: one per KB article or update, update type and fixed build. Their details are on Microsoft's advisory.
🧭 EchelonGraph on CVE-2016-7251
- EchelonGraph score
- 6.1 MEDIUM
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Fix status
- A fix is available — apply it.
Description from the CVE record (CVE.org), as published by its numbering authority
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the MDS API in Microsoft SQL Server 2016 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via an unspecified parameter, aka "MDS API XSS Vulnerability."
Published by Microsoft Corporation, the CVE Numbering Authority that assigned CVE-2016-7251, in its CVE record at CVE.org; reused under the CVE Program's Terms of Use (its licence and MITRE's copyright notice are in our Terms of Service).