PT-2020-2841 · Microsoft · Edge

Michal Bentkowski · Published 2020-05-12 · Updated 2020-05-28 · CVE-2020-1059

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.3

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Microsoft Edge (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue is related to a spoofing vulnerability that occurs when Microsoft Edge does not properly parse HTTP content. This could allow a remote attacker to conduct spoofing attacks by redirecting users to a specially crafted website, which could either spoof content or serve as a pivot to chain an attack with other vulnerabilities in web services. To exploit this issue, the user must click a specially crafted URL.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Open Redirect

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-601

Related Identifiers

BDU:2020-02995

CVE-2020-1059

Affected Products

Edge

References · 4

• https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2020-1059 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-1059 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-1059 · Security Note
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2020-02995 · Security Note