A Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) affecting the PDF generation in MicroStrategy 10.4, 2019 before Update 6, and 2020 before Update 2 all…

published 2020-11-24 5y ago modified 2026-07-09 4mo ago also EUVD-2020-17524

cvss: 6.5; version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 1.8%; EPSS 1.8% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 79%
public exploits: 0; none known

A Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) affecting the PDF generation in MicroStrategy 10.4, 2019 before Update 6, and 2020 before Update 2 allows authenticated users to access the content of internal network resources or leak files from the local system via HTML containers embedded in a dossier/dashboard document. NOTE: 10.4., no fix will be released as version will reach end-of-life on 31/12/2020.

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Exploit prediction

1.84% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 79% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

triskelelabs.com https://triskelelabs.com/extracting-your-aws-access-keys-through-a-pdf-file/ referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
NVD	3.1	6.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
NVD	2.0	4.0	AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N

Classification

Weakness

CWE-918 Server-Side Request Forgery

References

triskelelabs.com /extracting-your-aws-access-keys-through-a-pdf-file/
exploit, third-party-advisory
community.microstrategy.com /s/article/Securing-PDF-and-Excel-Export-with-Whitelists?language=en_US
vendor-advisory

Sources

CVE List CVE-2020-24815
NVD CVE-2020-24815

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