Microsoft security update for CVE-2020-1173 — Power BI Report Server
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Microsoft's advisory
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🎯 Affected products1
- Power BI Report Server
✅ Updates Microsoft lists: 1 update
1 row: one per KB article or update, update type and fixed build. Their details are on Microsoft's advisory.
| KB article | Update | Fixed build |
|---|---|---|
| — | Security Update | 1.6.7364.4075 |
🧭 EchelonGraph on CVE-2020-1173
- EchelonGraph score
- 6.8 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
A spoofing vulnerability exists in Microsoft Power BI Report Server in the way it validates the content-type of uploaded attachments. An authenticated attacker could exploit the vulnerability by uploading a specially crafted payload and sending it to the user. The attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could then perform actions and run scripts in the security context of the user. This security update addresses the vulnerability by ensuring Power BI Report Server properly validates content-type of the attachments when uploading and opening.
Published by Microsoft Corporation, the CVE Numbering Authority that assigned CVE-2020-1173, 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).