CVE-2020-16948: Microsoft SharePoint Enterprise Server

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 3.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

<p>An information disclosure vulnerability exists when Microsoft SharePoint Server fails to properly handle objects in memory. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could obtain information to further compromise the user’s system.</p> <p>To exploit the vulnerability, an attacker would have to log on to an affected system and run a specially crafted application.</p> <p>The security update addresses the vulnerability by correcting how Microsoft SharePoint Server handles objects in memory.</p>

Affected products

  • Microsoft SharePoint Enterprise Server: version 2016 only
  • Microsoft SharePoint Foundation: version 2010 only; version 2013 only
  • Microsoft SharePoint Server: version 2019 only

Published 2020-10-16. Last modified 2026-06-17.