⚠ Actively exploited in ransomware campaigns
This vulnerability is on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities list and has been used in known ransomware attacks. CISA required action: Apply updates per vendor instructions.. Due date: 2022-05-03.

CVE-2021-26855

Severity
9.8CRITICAL
EPSS
94.0%
top 0.11%
CISA KEV
KEVRansomware
Added 2021-11-03
Due 2022-05-03
Exploit
Exploited in wild
Active exploitation observed
Timeline
PublishedMar 3
KEV addedNov 3
KEV dueMay 3
Latest updateJun 28
CISA Required Action: Apply updates per vendor instructions.

Description

Microsoft Exchange Server Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:NExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 5.2

Affected Packages25 packages

Patches

🔴Vulnerability Details

5
GHSA
GHSA-6784-2mh5-cq56: Microsoft Exchange Server Remote Code Execution Vulnerability This CVE ID is unique from CVE-2021-26412, CVE-2021-26854, CVE-2021-26857, CVE-2021-26852022-05-24
Project0
The More You Know, The More You Know You Don’t Know - Project Zero2022-04-01
CVEList
Microsoft Exchange Server Remote Code Execution Vulnerability2021-03-02
VulnCheck
Microsoft Exchange Server Remote Code Execution Vulnerability2021
Project0
Project Zero RCA: CVE-2021-26855: Microsoft Exchange Server-Side Request Forgery

💥Exploits & PoCs

8
Exploit-DB
Microsoft Exchange 2019 - Unauthenticated Email Download (Metasploit)2021-05-21
Exploit-DB
Microsoft Exchange 2019 - Unauthenticated Email Download2021-05-18
Exploit-DB
Microsoft Exchange 2019 - Server-Side Request Forgery2021-03-14
Exploit-DB
Microsoft Exchange 2019 - Server-Side Request Forgery (Proxylogon) (PoC)2021-03-11
Metasploit
Microsoft Exchange ProxyLogon Scanner

📋Vendor Advisories

2
CISA
Microsoft Exchange Server Remote Code Execution Vulnerability2021-11-03
Microsoft
Microsoft Exchange Server Remote Code Execution Vulnerability2021-03-09

🕵️Threat Intelligence

20
Unit42
Manic Menagerie 2.0: The Evolution of a Highly Motivated Threat Actor2023-06-28
Unit42
Top CVEs to Patch: Insights from the 2022 Unit 42 Network Threat Trends Research Report2022-07-21
Talos
Quarterly Report: Incident Response trends from Spring 20212021-06-10
Talos
Quarterly Report: Incident Response trends from Spring 20212021-06-10
Unit42
Actor Exploits Microsoft Exchange Server Vulnerabilities, Cortex XDR Blocks Harvesting of Credentials2021-04-15

💬Community

2
HackerOne
SSRF due to CVE-2021-26855 on ████████2021-03-24
HackerOne
CVE-2021-26855 on ████████ resulting in SSRF2021-03-24