critical Known exploitedREV. 01

CVE-2023-23397Microsoft Outlook — Credential Relay Privilege Escalation

A privilege escalation flaw in Microsoft Outlook allows a relay attack using the Windows login protocol (NTLM), letting an attacker authenticate to another service as the user. No user interaction is needed.

YOUR NEXT MOVE

Install the Microsoft update for CVE-2023-23397 on every Outlook client.

Read the risk

THE VITAL STATS
CVSS score
9.8/ 10
CVSS v3.1
EPSS probability
97.2%
Likelihood of exploitation
Attack complexity
Low
Conditions needed to exploit
Known exploited
Yes — CISA KEV
CVE published
2023-03-14
Added to KEV
2023-03-14
CISA due date
2023-04-04
Exploit published
Not recorded
Confidence
medium
Kill chain
credential access
MITRE ATT&CK
—
Severity
critical

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attacker needsNetwork reach to the target, per the CVSS vector. No account or user interaction is needed.

Behind the card

3 REFERENCES
Field-level provenanceTRACE THE SOURCES +

Which source supports each field, when it was retrieved, and who extracted it.

FieldsSourceRetrievedExtractorConfidence
cvss, exploitation.attack_complexity, exploitation.exploit_available, published_at, referencesnvd.nist.gov2026-11-05scrty-crds-pipeline/0.1high
exploitation.known_exploited, exploitation.kev_added, exploitation.kev_duecisa.gov2026-11-05scrty-crds-pipeline/0.1high
epssapi.first.org2026-11-05scrty-crds-pipeline/0.1high
title, subtitle, summary, severity, remediation, mitre_attack, kill_chain, recommended_action, confidence, tags, exploitation.prerequisitesnvd.nist.gov2026-11-05claude-codehigh

Printing history

THE RECORD
  1. r1Initial base card

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