Microsoft Skype vulnerabilities

8 CVEs affecting Microsoft Skype, 0 known to be exploited (CISA KEV), with EPSS scores. Latest: CVE-2020-24003, published 2021-01-11.

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• CVE-2017-6517, published 2017-03-23. Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 46.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Microsoft Skype 7.16.0.102 contains a vulnerability that could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the targeted system. This vulnerability exists due to the way…
• CVE-2017-9948, published 2017-06-26. High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 6.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. A stack buffer overflow vulnerability has been discovered in Microsoft Skype 7.2, 7.35, and 7.36 before 7.37, involving MSFTEDIT.DLL mishandling of remote RDP clipboard content within the message box.
• CVE-2018-0595, published 2018-06-26. High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 5.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Untrusted search path vulnerability in the installer of Skype for Windows allows an attacker to gain privileges via a Trojan horse DLL in an unspecified directory.
• CVE-2018-0594, published 2018-06-26. High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 5.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Untrusted search path vulnerability in Skype for Windows allows an attacker to gain privileges via a Trojan horse DLL in an unspecified directory.
• CVE-2019-0932, published 2019-05-16. Medium severity, CVSS 5.9. EPSS: 4.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. An information disclosure vulnerability exists in Skype for Android, aka 'Skype for Android Information Disclosure Vulnerability'.
• CVE-2019-0622, published 2019-01-08. Medium severity, CVSS 4.6. EPSS: 2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when Skype for Andriod fails to properly handle specific authentication requests, aka "Skype for Android Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability." This…
• CVE-2016-5720, published 2017-01-23. High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 1.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Multiple untrusted search path vulnerabilities in Microsoft Skype allow local users to execute arbitrary code and conduct DLL hijacking attacks via a Trojan horse (1) msi.dll, (2) dpapi.dll, or (3)…
• CVE-2020-24003, published 2021-01-11. Low severity, CVSS 3.3. EPSS: 1.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Microsoft Skype through 8.59.0.77 on macOS has the disable-library-validation entitlement, which allows a local process (with the user's privileges) to obtain unprompted microphone and camera access…