CVEvulnerability

CVE-2021-41372

7.6 HIGH Published 2021-11-10 Modified 2026-08-19 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2021-11-10
Last modified
2026-08-19
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.6 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:N
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
9.6 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-352, CWE-79

Description

A Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) and Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability exists when Power BI Report Server Template file (pbix) containing HTML files is uploaded to the server and HTML files are accessed directly by the victim. Combining these 2 vulnerabilities together, an attacker is able to upload malicious Power BI templates files to the server using the victim's session and run scripts in the security context of the user and perform privilege escalation in case the victim has admin privileges when the victim access one of the HTML files present in the malicious Power BI template uploaded. The security update addresses the vulnerability by helping to ensure that Power BI Report Server properly sanitize file uploads.

Affected configurations

• microsoft power bi report server 15.0.1107.165

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-352 Cross-Site Request Forgery weakness
  • CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation weakness

References